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Any idea what is the intended purpose? I mean, assuming good faith (which is not granted but plausible) how would this help them to build their distro.

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They will get visibility. Having a lot of OSS that officially support HarmonyOS make it look more credible alternative.

This is a spammy, astroturfy way of promotion. That I don't like. But I like having options.

Sometimes it honours in a shitty way licenses like the GPLs, otherwise it's just cheap advertising for the early adopters.

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