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Android and chromeos are as much Linux as macOS and iOS are FreeBSD
Android and ChromeOS are more Linux than MacOS and iOS are a FreeBSD. Apple closed the source quite a while ago and they have their own fork which I bet is very far away from the original now.
But don't they have to publish the changes they make the to kernel and or GNU-Tools since they distribute the compiled versions of it (License Wise)?
Furthermore I remember seeing some activity at their GitHub page for the/some kernel but I may be mistaken.
FreeBSD is licenced under BSD licence, they don't have to do shit and they don't. Windows is also using a lot of BSD code and you'll never see the sources.
Android and ChromeOS are also forking Linux, just not doing hard fork.
Usually the path is main Linux -> Google -> SoC maker -> device manufacturer. You get Linux millions of lines of code different.
You can say the same about every distro. There's literally no difference between Android and Ubuntu from this perspective. Also that's how a lot of code feeds back into the kernel - it gets tested in the wild and if it's good and useful it gets PRd and merged back.