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How OpenHarmony is funded
- origin
- CN
- host
- OpenAtom Foundation (MIIT-supervised); code donated by Huawei
- host type
- foundation (state-supervised)
- licence
- Apache-2.0 (most), GPL-2.0 kernel
| Channel | Finding | Label | Ev. |
|---|---|---|---|
| employer developers | Huawei and Huawei-ecosystem firms (SiChuan Kaihong/深开鸿, HiHope/润和, ChinaSoft) employ most committers | inference | C |
| foundation budget | OpenAtom spent ¥25.83M on OpenHarmony in 2023 (28% of charitable spending), incl. ¥6.49M paid to Huawei Cloud | fact | A |
| public grants | Adoption subsidies: Shenzhen 15% of upgrade investment (+5% RISC-V, cap ¥10M); Wuhan East Lake 50% of R&D (cap ¥30M); native-app awards; OpenAtom received ¥20.7M government subsidy in 2023 (granting body unverified) | fact | A-v |
| corporate sponsorship | Huawei Device + Huawei Technologies donated ¥27.85M to OpenAtom in 2023 (37% of donations); 深开鸿 ¥3.5M earmarked 2021 | fact | A |
| commercial model | HarmonyOS NEXT (proprietary) built on top; device certification; commercial distributions by Kaihong, HiHope | fact | B |
| donations | no individual-donation channel | fact | B |
dominant channel: corporate (Huawei) via OpenAtom + local adoption subsidies
top funder: Huawei
top funder share: ~37% of OpenAtom donations (2023); higher for code
funder nationality: CN
public money: true
evidence: A
note: OpenAtom figures reused from docs/CN-FOUNDATIONS.md (OpenAtom 2021-23 work reports, OCR); local subsidies from data/funding/cn.json