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They release their code the same way that android do.
There is some open core, but system you recieve in the end device is going to be totally locked and without source code to see. The only component with available source will be Linux kernel, because of it's user-friendly copyleft licence, but it is so much modified even on Android it's basically useless.
The os is not based on linux.
So they release the bare minimum and shove every feature in proprietary Play Service blobs?
They don't even do that.
Android is fundamentally FOSS, but in reality Google has an additional proprietary layer over the top (that unfortunately is growing)
HarmonyOS is fundamentally proprietary, but a few components are GPL licence so they've done the bare minimum in making that open to satisfy the law. And even those parts are being stripped out over time.
No. HarmonyOS is closed source.