I think there's room for something along the lines of "I want to spin non-free off as a separate project". Much of the concern over dropping non-free seems to be about having things just suddenly vanish.
Those people may want to take a look at my alternate suggestion of making sarge the last release with non-free. That would provide ample opportunity to set up nonfree.org.
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