Good (and not good™) news for German users and perhaps the reason why Bethesda was holding back a GOG release (that and perhaps, any possible technical difficulty in removing the GFWL requirement).

Source:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/fallout-3-no-longer-banned-in-germany-report/1100-6434886/?utm_source=gamefaqs&utm_medium=partner&utm_content=news_module&utm_campaign=homepage

Well, it wasn't really "banned", but german bureaucracy is too complicated to explain early in the morning. It's a pain in the ass.

Quick question: was Fallout: New Vegas banned too? It's basically as gore-y as Fallout 3.

As far as I understand, it was banned for sale to minors. Unfortunately, this did have the side effect of Steam offering only the censored version, regardless of age and the same thing would have happened here too. No, it wasn't.

That's right, but at least the vanilla version was censored in Germany in the same way as Fallout 3 was. Only the Ultimate Edition got a uncut release. So, if you buy the vanilla edition on Steam, you can only play in German, but if you buy the Ultimate Edition you get the same procedure as the rest of the world.

That sounds pretty shitty for early adopters.

Absolutely, especially since you can't buy Ultimate Edition if you already own the vanilla release. Back then you were not allowed to delete games from your Steam library autonomously, so you had to grapple with Steam support. And if you know Steam support, you know as well how inflexible they can be.

Hm, such memories let me appreciate this haven of DRM freedom still more ...

Well, maybe it will lead to a GOG release.

I think releases of Oblivion and Fallout 3 are very likely, but I wonder if they are willing to do the extra work for Skyrim and FNV and remove Steamworks for a DRM-free release here on GOG.

Ah that's good. Happy for the Germans. Though iv never had an issue with GFWL there is a pretty easy to use mod that rids the game of it. :)

Don't GOG team help them? As I know, GOG team work on such issues too. Am I wrong?

As far as I know you need access to the source code in order to remove Steamworks properly (unless you're using a crack), and I can't imagine that Bethesda would leave the source code of their games to GOG or somebody else. Of course they could do this easily by themselves, but it would be a piece of extra work.

The pirate version of Skyrim came out few days after release, and run perfectly fine without the client. There should not be much work involved in bringing the game here.
I assume it is just a matter of patching the main .exe (and maybe a few dll's)

Good to hear, so let's hope that Bethesda sees it in a similar way. :)