This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of kmod. It has been packaged by Marco d'Itri . Original sources were obtained from: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kmod/ Copyright (C) 2011 ProFUSION embedded systems. The kmod tools are licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or newer. libkmod is licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or newer. On Debian systems the complete text of the licenses can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1 .