Nvidia Drivers Listed as Open Source

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.3 Desktop, and when I list the available drivers to install, I see that there are a bunch of Nvidia drivers listed as open source (shown underlined in red below). I had come to understand that the Nvidia drivers are binary blobs that are not open source.

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Are there are open source Nvidia drivers or are they closed source binary blobs, and this interface needs fixing?

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1 Answer

Nouveau driver is open source. NVIDIA's own binary driver is not. It's a bug that they're displayed as being open source.

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