Driver situation of the Steam Controller? Tied to proprietary Steamworks library?

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I know, you get "basic" support as a HID from it, but as far as I have heard you need to use the Steamworks API to take full advantage of the hardware features. I have googled a bit and found this discussion: http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5258

So my understanding is:

The "full" driver is closed source
The "full" driver can only be used with the steam client and games that are started through steam

Does that sound right? Because I will definitely not buy any hardware that is tied to a proprietary software client in this way.

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