OK, thanks everyone.  I've got my next steps.  Sorry if this subject has been repetitive.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:55 PM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 02:12:16PM -0500, Josh Marshall wrote:
> So a separate channel would work for non-free software?  I know the stuff
> is fundamentally gross.  I'd still like to have a better way to get out of
> an ecosystem that is basically entirely all non-free software and a
> transition to fully free becomes possible.

Yes, channels can work for any kind of software, and they let us keep
Guix as "100% free software". There will be occasional hiccups as the
module imports from GNU Guix into the channel are changed, but it
shouldn't be too often.