Packages without source?

[Bill Davidsen]

Why are there packages for which there are no corresponding source? Given the 
number of packages which are not part of Fedora because they are not licensed in 
open enough fashion, I would expect that all of the packages which are available 
as binary are also available as source.

My latest run-in with this is xawtv, which I believe I got from rawhide, version 
"xawtv.i386 3.95-8.fc9" for which I find no source. It appears to be compiled in 
some "safe" configuration, with no mmx, sse, etc, and is dog slow. I attempted 
to compile the source from the original site, but that will not compile with the 
current FC9 or 10 gcc.

I'm more curious about why the source from which the RPM was built isn't 
available than anything else, I can probably build a static version on FC6 in a 
VM and move it over or just run it in the VM.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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