I guess it’s fine. My concern is that if every few lines that are cargo-culted from another project require their own copyright notice, the source code will become littered with such notices in a way that would make reading the code a pain in the ass. Some repos have a copyright notice at the top of every file. This boilerplate feels very enterprisey to me and is not necessary (copyright can just go in a single license file in the top-level directory. I suppose big corporate lawyers like have a belt (`LICENSE.txt`) and suspenders (notice at the top of each file), just in case a file somehow escapes from the project or whatever. That’s why I had a negative reaction to this but I’m okay with merging it as-is, as long as the copyright noticed don’t get out of control (in which case, I will consolidate them into a single file).