Fang Zei said:

That's why I'm actually inclined to believe Devin Faraci when he says that Fox doesn't feel comfortable releasing the original versions while George is still alive.

Watching Disney's celebration of George at D23 (which was a very nice, if incestuous at this point, gesture) had me thinking that there's absolutely no way they're going to release the OOT at this point in time. They're still celebrating and thanking the guy, and they probably will be for some time.

Watching and reading things that have mostly come from JJ's mouth lately, it has become easy to feel like Lucasfilm and Disney are on our side. Even Kathleen keeps mentions of George fairly brief (generally praising the wonderful universe he has created that they get to explore). Not because they aren't grateful to him. But because they want to avoid the direct questions of "Why don't you respect the prequels and why aren't you using anything from them?" and "Why did you discard and/or set fire to George's VII-IX outlines?".

Disney has chosen good decisions over George's Ego so far. And I'm sure they'll continue to. But if George still sees releasing the OOT as a huge middle finger, I think they'll wait. Not necessarily until he's gone, but perhaps once (if) Disney convinces everyone that the franchise is in excellent hands with VII and so forth. That is, assuming they aren't contractually unable to release it. Could that even be a thing if they own the rights?.