[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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