>>>>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:

> No, the impact is considerable. As I pointed out in the previous
> discussion[1], it will require a deblobbed kernel among other things,
> a different approach to handling sourceless binaries under a free
> license (ulm suggested a no-source-code tag), and no small effort in
> educating users.

This particular point has been addressed in the meantime. We have a
"no-source-code" license label which can be used alongside (e.g.) BSD
for binary-only packages.

> That said, I'm all for it. Gentoo should make users acknowledge when
> they install proprietary software.

> [1]
> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/d2196de6a6c8285bfa9c1b789ef88dae