Storing third-party libraries in source control

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store everything you will need to build the project 10 years from now.I store the entire zip distribution of any library, just in case

Edit for 2017:
This answer did not age well:-). If you are still using something old like ant or make, the above still applies. If you use something more modern like maven or graddle (or Nuget on .net for example), with dependency management, you should be running a dependency management server, in addition to your version control server. As long as you have good backups of both, and your dependency management server does not delete old dependencies, you should be ok. For an example of a dependency management server, see for example Sonatype Nexus or JFrog Artifcatory, among many others.

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