@Suiseiseki @menherahair @phnt @Cyrillic @SuperDicq
It is unfortunate that this license mistagging has taken place, though you are yet to demonstrate it's scale.

>as a result, running `emerge --search` can return results of proprietary packages.

Keyword being can, but it always displays the license in this search. Plus attempting to install it will throw up an error telling the user they don't have that license enabled, then displaying that license.

>Gentoo encourages installation of proprietary software in many places, including the wiki.

So, documentation = encouragement to you? To me, encouragement means just that: to encourage. Encouraging someone to go on a journey even if they're scared would be to say "I know you're scared, but you'd enjoy going and I don't want you to miss out."

This statement implies not just endorsement, but active recommendation. Not once does Gentoo either endorse non-free software, and NEVER does it encourage it.

You could argue the hosting of something endorses it by default, it depends to what level you'd hold a hardware store for selling a shitty hammer. At best, the non-free software in the Gentoo repo's is 'endorsed' in the sense it is not *literal* malware.

But encouragement is another thing all together, an advertisement almost. Unless you change the definition of encourage, Gentoo never encourages use on non-free software. At best, it endorses the security of some non-free software passively by hosting it, and that's being generous to your point.