> I've borrowed or integrated code from decades ago Isn't that what the author did by vendoring the library within his own project? It amounts to taking over m

> I've borrowed or integrated code from decades ago Isn't that what the author did by vendoring the library within his own project? It amounts to taking over maintenance for the bits of code you use. Sometimes this is bad (copy-and-paste coding, possibly duplicated effort) but when the third-party component is totally unmaintained it becomes quite excusable.