> explicitly depending on our fork of their library would be clearer and safer. I complete agree. To temper my comment, I've seen plenty of bad examples of cop

> explicitly depending on our fork of their library would be clearer and safer. I complete agree. To temper my comment, I've seen plenty of bad examples of copying dependencies, bundling old un-updated versions, with undocumented changes. In such case, it's true that copying leads to a worse kind of dependency.