So what does this mean? He was the main contributer. Is Nouveau the only open source driver Nvidia cards can use on Linux?
I believe so, yes. Other than that there’s the official closed driver. Nvidia also “open-sourced” their driver for the RTX 20 series and up, which you could technically run, but I didn’t hear much good from it.
I’ve heard that it’s not fully open source. Some components of it are still closed source.