They are modifies to the Kobo firmware, They consent a better customization of it, They are maintained by @geek1011 which created Kobopatch and @jackie_w. When other persons help them @geek1011 gives the credit of their work.
This is a link to a post in which is explained what patches are.
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Originally Posted by PeterT
Patches are exactly that. They replace existing bytes in programs by other bytes. They can't make the programs any larger than they are.
The skill of creating patches is in decompiling the programs, not back to their original language (which was probably C or C++) but to assembly language, and then seeing how to affect the functionality by changing the assembly code and then replacing the original bytes (the op codes) by different opcodes.
Some patches are to the data; strings of characters which in somes cases are stored in compressed format in the compiled modules
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To know what patches do see the actual patches files in the src folder in Kobopatch. In commented lines there is a brief but generally exhaustive description of what the patch changes. The devmodeon is not required, it is a function of standard firmware and it is not correlated with patch. Be careful that
the version of the firmware must be the same of the version of the patches. Find the thread of Kobopatch of the firmware You have.
I don't think that patching could influence the exposition of sensitive data contained in the e-reader to the network. And You don't need to remove anything, only see the Kobopatch instruction, it is very simple expecially if You study computer science.