From the fact this patch keeps getting resubmitted despite repeated objection I deduce they are in fact of the view it does matter and that therefore it is a licensing change and they are scared of the consequences of ignoring it.
No I think they just want to have to write a pointless hack lie in their kernel module.
There is no nice way for nvidia developers to say our lawyers don't think this is a license issues without doing
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL\0 OH NOT WE DIDNT OUR LAWYESR ARE OKAY");
I don't think I'd be going quite into how illegal it is.
The thing is I can't base a useful userspace interface on this, and since the nvidia driver exists everwhere despite what we'd wish, I'd rather let the users have some hope of a sane architecture, instead of nvidia having to replace even more userspace code and kernel code with their own insane shit.
Dave.