This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the Linux kernel.
Linux was written by Linus Torvalds <Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI>
and others.

This package was put together by Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>, from
sources retrieved from directories under
ftp.cs.helsinki.fi:/pub/Software/Linux/Kernel/
The sources may be found at most Linux ftp sites, including 
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/

This package was then maintained by Sven Rudolph.

This package was maintained by Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
from March 1997 to May 2004.

This package is currently maintained by the
Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>

Linux is Copyright Linus Torvalds and others.

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The Xen patch was obtained from:
 git://git.eu.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git

Xen is distributed under the following license:

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The openvz patch was obtained from:
 git://git.openvz.org/pub/linux-2.6.26-openvz

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