[php-maint] ITP: php-recaptcha -- PHP interface to recaptcha.net
Mark A. Hershberger
mah at everybody.org
Sat Jun 19 21:00:12 UTC 2010
Thomas Goirand <thomas at goirand.fr> writes:
> The issue that I see with your php module, is that it needs access to
> recaptcha, which owns it's own website and all. While the module itself
> is free, why don't recaptcha just simply provides the full source code
> for doing the captcha yourself? I don't like the idea to depend on their
> website at all.
These captchas are different than just generic captchas, though:
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books,
newspapers and old time radio shows. Check out our paper in Science
about it <http://recaptcha.net/reCAPTCHA_Science.pdf>
…
Currently, we are helping to digitize old editions of the New York
Times.
Additionally, this is part of the dependencies for CiviCRM:
CiviCRM is a free, libre and open source constituent relationship
management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and
designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and
non-governmental groups.
I'm in the process of packaging CiviCRM for Debian.
I don't see a problem with providing access to reCAPTCHA for those who
want to help the Carnegie Mellon project as long as other CAPTCHA
modules are available.
Mark.
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