@yomiel @menherahair @phnt @Cyrillic @SuperDicq >So, documentation = encouragement to you?
Yes, if you write a proprietary ebuild that installs proprietary software and document instructions how to use proprietary software, you are endorsing the installation of proprietary software and encouraging people to use it - otherwise why on earth would you have written such ebuild and such instructions?

>it depends to what level you'd hold a hardware store for selling a shitty hammer.
If a hardware store stocks a hammer and offers it for sale, it's clearly encouraging the purchase of such hammer.

>the non-free software in the Gentoo repo's is 'endorsed' in the sense it is not *literal* malware.
Nonfree software is malware most of the time, thus Gentoo likely hosts many proprietary malware programs.

>Gentoo never encourages use on non-free software.
A lie doesn't become the truth just because you repeat it many times.

>it endorses the security of some non-free software passively by hosting it
Proprietary software has no security against the developer and often no security against anyone and hosting and maintaining an ebuild is an active rather than passive thing.