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[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

They release their code the same way that android do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

The os is not based on linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So they release the bare minimum and shove every feature in proprietary Play Service blobs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

No. HarmonyOS is closed source.