Both Ububtu and Mint labels Intel-Firmware as Open source

Bug #1744905 reported by Rik
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Bug Description

Any version of Mint/Ubuntu has in their "Additional Drivers" the Intel-Firmware described as open source. As far as I know that's sound scam because the Intel Firmware it's not only proprietary code but also encrypted with a private key.

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