How do you manage source copied from an open source project?

I keep it under a "third-party" folder within my source tree. I commit it before making any changes, so that any changes I do make will be documented by the revision history. I don't make any changes except when I need to.

In our codebase, independent libraries (which may be OS or under a license we paid for) live in their own directories in the repository. Minor changes should be marked as ours.

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