I am aware of the reasoning they might have for this and was mostly asking about the parent's claim that Firefox is legally obligated to do this. VLC is still

I am aware of the reasoning they might have for this and was mostly asking about the parent's claim that Firefox is legally obligated to do this. VLC is still gets packaged by Debian as VLC and even branding intact I believe. Chrome is a little different since you can't even build it so Debian's interest in including it instead of Chromium isn't probably all that high anyway.