[kibwen]

It does not prevent any company from creating a Pijulhub. However, if you make modifications to Pijul or link it as a library into other code, that code must be made open-source.

(And note that GitHub doesn't even use the original git written by Linus, they wrote their own implementation, libgit2.)

[qznc]

Afaik libgit2 is a derivative of git.

Anyways, for Pijul to be successful, there must be something like PijulHub. The bar is higher now. Thus, make it easy to build this hub!

[kibwen]

Being open-source doesn't make it any harder to build a centralized source code hosting site, it just makes it harder to get VC funding. :P

[ben0x539]

It sounds like the authors' motivation is to create something that doesn't need a central hub to compete, to fight centralization.

I expect their idea of success is also very different from github's.