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I was tempted to defend them on the basis of the issues but, gosh, are the PRs bad.

On top of the duplication, the added files are somehow commented in Mandarin.

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.

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.

Here's an example. This is the PR they created in lodash's GitHub repo:

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/5980