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Yes, I think there's quite a bit of work involved to reimplement Nordic's softdevice - and then there's the issue of certification. As I understand it, it's only locked down so that it's easier to BT certify your devices - you wouldn't actually be able to sell anything developed using an OSS stack.
Nordic developers are actually super helpful - if enough people pushed them about developing a totally cut-down bluetooth stack they might do it.
I went to a Nordic developer day a few months ago, and it sure sounded like you could use the nRF51822 as a nRF24 clone without needing any of the softdevice at all. That'd be pretty cool for home automation stuff.