@Linux Of course nvidia still refuses to comply with the GPLv2-only, as it's not like any Linux developer has sued or permanently terminated their license.

No, that driver isn't even fully source-available, as it fails at least section 2 of the "osd": https://opensource.org/osd

¼ of the driver (NOVA) runs on the main CPU and the other ¾ of the driver runs on the GPU as proprietary software, which is clearly malicious as it is digitally handcuffed to prevent you from replacing it.

As you can see, most of the driver currently is composed of a proprietary peripheral software loader (warning: unholy abominable rust code);
https://lab.vern.cc/gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nova/-/blob/nova-next-6.15-2025-03-09/drivers/gpu/nova-core/firmware.rs


Nouveau is free software up to the 780 Ti, as it implements free peripheral software for cards, as well as free VBIOS init (although for newer cards it doesn't as the digital handcuffs prevent that).