They decided their new course was 'compatible enough' with the GPL and this is one of those area where you start to feel the pain that's the difference between 'compatible enough' and actually compatible with the GPL and the ideas behind it.

Hopefully in your case - given what was being said about the options - the rebuilders will end up settling on the public cloud instance approach. If that happens, with a bit of luck you can go back to your UBI related advocacy once the rubble stops bouncing.

Hopefully.