I just wrote Joshua Klein, who wrote me back with a bit of inside info. The article started as just an interview about me and Classic Edition, but as Joshua just told me, they sort of felt that to focus on any one project like mine would be a complete invitation for me to be sued by Lucasfilm! So they expanded the scope of the article, which is nice, making it more interesting in the process but also making sure that no one project would be highlighted enough for Lucasfilm to just seize on the one and sue them!
A lawsuit is still possible, but it's kind of an interesting way of thinking about diffusing the problem.