Also, I find it interesting that the article is apparently (without an exact translation) saying that it's Disney, not Fox, that's doing this release. That either means Disney and Fox actually worked out a deal over the last 18 months, or that there's nothing legally stopping Lucasfilm/Disney from doing this in Australia and Germany but they wouldn't be able to do so in the U.S.

It may simply be that I'm overthinking this and that Fox is still technically distributing but that it was Disney's idea to do the release. Fox wouldn't be able to do such a release without Lucasfilm's blessing anyway, so this would make sense.