[Bug 1848394] Re: software properteries shows "open source" for proprietary nvidia driver

[Stefan Pappalardo]

It's the same on Ubuntu 18.04.

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy software-properties-gtk
software-properties-gtk:
  Installed: 0.96.24.32.12
  Candidate: 0.96.24.32.12
  Version table:
 *** 0.96.24.32.12 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.96.24.32.1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

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Title:
  software properteries shows "open source" for proprietary nvidia
  driver

Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  User installed 19.10 and opened software properties. 
  The nvidia binary driver shows as an "open source" driver. It should show "proprietary"
  See screenshot

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.98.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1
  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Oct 17 01:23:12 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-16 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191015)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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