I was responding to this: Sufficient but a good idea to put copyright in all files. Technically if there's no license found then it should be considered

I was responding to this: Sufficient but a good idea to put copyright in all files. Technically if there's no license found then it should be considered automatically copyrighted, with no permissions to copy. So leaving copyright license out actually makes it less open source. I said it is not legally necessary to have that in every file in the previous comment solely to contradict the idea that his project level LICENSE file did not constitute a license for the individual files. I did not at any time suggest that it was not a good idea to put notices in every file. In fact, if you look at my other comments, you will see that I said that he should have put copyright notices into every file multiple times. I even said it at the root of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43750850