Re: Claim of XLibre Hate Campaign Against Debian Developer

Hello,

On Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 at 7:35 PM, Antoine Le Gonidec <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 08:45:53PM +0000, callmetango a écrit :
> 
> > ## 2. Statement of Receiving Threatening E-Mails
> > 
> > On Oct 4, 2025, at 10:41:47 UTC, a person named Antoine Le Gonidec posted the following message to this mailing list [3]:
> > 
> > > Just so the kind of people involved in XLibre is made more obvious: I already started to get threatening e-mails from them following the couple messages I sent to this mailing list.
> > > 
> > > This is the kind of behaviour that would be encouraged by any DD working on or sponsoring work related to XLibre.
> > 
> > We unequivocally condemn any threats made in the name of XLibre. In this regard, we kindly ask Antoine Le Gonidec to forward the emails in question to my address [email protected] . We will analyze them and take the appropriate measures. Once we have done so, we offer to publish a statement here as well.
> 
> 
> I don’t believe this is written in good faith, and I don’t feel safe engaging with anyone that is part of XLibre.
> This is going to be my only message on this topic, to confirm I got threats, and to refuse engaging further with any of you.

Thank you for your reply! We regret that you assume our message was not written in good faith.

It is very important to us to maintain good relationships with other projects, especially in view of the core functionality of our software. We strongly condemn attacks, threats, and insults.

In this specific case, we could all have benefited from clarification. Unfortunately, we are unable to verify the accusation made and must therefore reject it.

If there are proven threats misusing the name of XLibre, we are more than willing to help and hold those responsible accountable.


Regards
callmetango
XLibre project