Uber's London licence renewed for only four months

This is an article published on 26th May 2017. The license was not renewed and the September 2017 thread " Uber London licence not renewed" is at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310664

Quite strange this was posted considering it was just announced the license will not be renewed further. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310664