FWIW, we had other roms included in the source as tables in the past, and all have been silently removed and became an external zip set when noticed (mostly, they were included as tables at the origin when the legality matters for small tables often related to math operations was not much of a concern)
the reason why this time the removal needed to be greatly advertised is quite unclear and seems to boil down to "someone" attempting to influence the discussion about licenses without stepping in a civil way into the discussion, from a place where no objections can be raised.
I think anyone can see who is trying to harm the project and who is trying to help it...