[Plugin: FV WordPress Flowplayer] Branding on plugins in the official database

I thought that one of the restrictions to having your plugin in the official plugin repositories is that it didn’t advertise to the blog’s reader’s without the admin giving permission to do so. So, one thing that has been boggling my mind for the past while is why Flowplayer got into the repository. Yes, it is GPL, but it forces you to have Flowplayer branding on your videos. (For the record, I never got how their business model worked anyway, seeing as if the free version was open source, and the only advantage of uses the non-open source version was being able to put your own brand (rather than Flowplayer’s) on each video. Seeing as people could just download the open source version, and rip out the branding bit).

Anyway, it seems like FV did just that, they took Flowplayer, de-branded it, and made a wordpress plugin with some nifty features. However, in later versions, they decided to re-enable the forced branding. Why?

From the changelog at: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/fv-wordpress-flowplayer/changelog/, it says:

1.1.0
Flowplayer logos reintroduced at request of www.ads-software.com

So, why did www.ads-software.com request that the logos be put back in, especially as there was the above mentioned requirement? (Or am I just imagining that up?)

Thank you.