The argument for removal seems pretty tenuous, as the suit is against Google, and they are still challenging them. Then they would need to go through all those linuxes that re-distribute via the repositories. Chromium is, I believe, standard for MeeGo. The outcome will be that either Google will win, they will lose and pay the litigant lots of money to let them use it (the main aim of these suits), or they will remove that bit from the code (which only relates to the updating process, from what I can make out). Sure, if Google loses, and keeps using it without paying up, then there could be an issue for those who also distribute - but the need for removal would be at that point.

So, please put it back in the repositories, in a similar way that it is available in other distributions. It seems pointless continuing to nobble this system when there are applications available that would enhance it. At the end of the day, n900/Maemo is small fry, and needs all the opportunities it can get.