I would vote for "Third Party Drivers". It doesn't sound that negative
like the initial description as "restricted" but on the other hand it
informs the user about what he installs and why this software is not
shipped with the installation CD, which also is quite important.

Anyway anyone of the suggestions made above would be better than the
absolutely misleading "Hardware Drivers". I dislike "Additional Drivers"
just because the word "additional" makes me thing about something that
is not absolutely necessary but would have in any case a positive
impact. Though this positive impact is not always guaranteed, like for
example in case of fglrx.

>From my experience in support forums I can say that the example of
Bauermeister above is very characteristic. There are really people
having Intel Graphic Cards which come and ask desperately why they don't
find drivers for their cards in "Hardware Drivers".  Is Intel bad not
having drivers for linux? It sounds like a joke but it really happens.
And the description "Hardware Drivers" doesn't help avoid that. Actually
this  is the point of view of the new user switching from windows to
Ubuntu. This user has the mentality that every piece of hardware needs
some kind of extra driver to work properly. Seeing his "Hardware
Drivers" list empty he feels something like naked. He can't imagine that
the normal case is to make the installation and everything should works.

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Menu name "Hardware Drivers" misleading
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202267
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