Okay, so what? MB sells for more than AFM, BBB will potentially need license fees also, it's not necessarily "free" so you can drop that one for these purposes, and CC only sells the way it does because it's so rare and CCC, which may or may not come to a remake. Two reason that make CC less than a slam dunk.
The Universal license wasn't a roadblock for Farside to bring to Pinball Arcade.
The Universal license wasn't a roadblock to making MB in the first place, when it sold for a hell of a lot less than MMR.
Am I saying it will happen? No f---ing clue, I have zero knowledge. But to rule it out seems very premature.