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How openEuler is funded
- origin
- CN
- host
- OpenAtom Foundation (since 2021); originated at Huawei (EulerOS)
- host type
- foundation (state-supervised)
- licence
- MulanPSL-2.0 (+upstream licences)
| Channel | Finding | Label | Ev. |
|---|---|---|---|
| employer developers | Huawei is the largest contributor; Kylinsoft, UnionTech, iSoft, China Telecom/Mobile clouds contribute | inference | C |
| foundation budget | OpenAtom spent ¥8.65M on openEuler in 2023; ~¥1.48M paid to The Linux Foundation in 2022 | fact | A |
| public grants | Xinchuang (信创) procurement drives the commercial distributions; local adoption subsidies name openEuler | inference | B |
| corporate sponsorship | Earmarked donations 2022: 麒麟信安 ¥3.0M, 润和 ¥1.0M | fact | A |
| commercial model | Subscription OS vendors: Kylin Advanced Server, UOS, Huawei EulerOS / Huawei Cloud EulerOS | fact | B |
| donations | none | fact | B |
dominant channel: corporate (Huawei) employer-developers + OpenAtom
top funder: Huawei
top funder share: unknown
funder nationality: CN
public money: true
evidence: B
note: OpenAtom figures reused from docs/CN-FOUNDATIONS.md (OpenAtom 2021-23 work reports, OCR); local subsidies from data/funding/cn.json