alt Hacker NewsYeah it's the main thing I really dislike about this - how do you make sure you know where it's from? (ie licensing) What if there are updates you need? Are you going to maintain it forever?
For some definition of "small piece of code" that may be ok, but also sometimes this is more than folks consider
Do you know that you can just add a small text file or a comment explaining that a module is vendored code. Ad updates is handled the same way as the rest of the code. And you will be “maintaining” it as long as you need to. Libraries are not “here be dragons” best left to adventurous ones.