/usr/share/vlc/skins2/fonts/FreeSansBold.ttf is in vlc-plugin-skins2 3.0.1-3build1.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o777.
It is a symlink to /usr/share/vlc/skins2/fonts/../../../fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoBold.ttf