The licensing problem is one of those questions where most asked questions can be closed as Too Localized simply because of the various reasons Dan pointed out, and are also on our Canonical question. You correctly point to one of the few types of Licensing questions we can actually answer without peril or risk communicating incorrect folk-wisdom.
The problem here is how to draw the line. For someone who has no contact with Microsoft at all, there is no way to know that there is a world-applicable answer to the case you point to; such a person won't know that this is on the right side of the line so will likely vote-to-close as duplicate of the Canonical even if there are answers from high-rep Microsoft-fluent users on the question. For ease, we elected to plonk all licensing questions into the off-topic category.
Exception-handling is always the hardest part of logical structures, especially when working with community-consensus standards. In this case, knowing that a question is on the right side of the line requires domain-specific knowledge in the tag. Such exception-handlers are not well dealt with on the StackExchange model. It's a fault we can't do much about, I'm afraid.