No, you never waive YOUR OWN responsibilities under contract law. The VLC developers (assuming they could get every contributor to agree) could give Apple a waiver, or Apple could indemnify a 3rd party, but Apple cannot do that for themselves. Apple distributed software that came with clear, explicit, responsibilities, and they chose to ignore them.
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