software properteries shows "open source" for proprietary nvidia driver

Bug #1848394 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-properties (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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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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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Stefan Pappalardo (sjuk) wrote :

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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