diff --git a/CMake/subproject.cmake b/CMake/subproject.cmake
index 9809f2d..78c2ebb 100644
--- a/CMake/subproject.cmake
+++ b/CMake/subproject.cmake
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+# subproject.cmake:
+#
+#    Builds another dependant CMake project, unless the project was already built or installed systemwide.
+#
+#    It does this by first checking if project exists systemwide and uses that.
+#    If not, it checks if the project was already included and if it was, it does nothing.
+#    If both of the above are not true, another CMake project is build.
+#
+# Usually the subprojects are git submodules on git repository, so packagers can avoid linking subprojects and
+# instead always use systemwide libraries, by not downloading submodules. This will normally cause build to fail
+# if systemwide package was not found.
+#
+# Developers can control this behaviour with -DSOURCE_<SUBPROJECT>=ON|OFF option. It's usually useful to have
+# local development versions of everything when developing, and this option makes sure nothing is linked against
+# systemwide libraries.
+#
+# If subprojects are being linked locally, and subprojects include subprojects that were already included.
+# They will not include the subproject again. Instead they link against the already compiled subprojects.
+#
+# This is convenient for development, but not so covenient if you need to have different versions of submodules
+# in-tree for some reason. Rather than doing that I just suggest updating the codebase to work with same library versions.
+
 function(add_subproject name)
    if(ARGC GREATER 1)
       set(package_name ${ARGV1})