Again, that's what the Rust Platform is for. It's a better solution than copying code, because it doesn't throw away all of the benefits of Cargo just to make some legal policies at some large companies a little easier.
This is where I actually prefer Go's "vendor" approach to dependencies. It would be great if rust / cargo eventually had the same and more authors adopted it or simply copied their little dependencies instead of having external dependencies on them.
Something like this proposed command, except for crate maintenance instead of distribution:
I sincerely hope that people never start copying code into their packages. I see virtually no upsides, except for making it easier to dodge bureaucratic hurdles at some big companies, and a huge number of downsides (basically forgoing all the benefits of Cargo).
Does it do more than using relative paths in a Cargo.toml would do?
I think this thread is about copying and pasting code versus using a small library in the Go case, which might be a philosphical difference with Rust.
It might help to point out that vendored crates are compiled from source making the required review process referenced by that poster just as possible with server crates.
