Banning Unethical Modules

On October 20, 2012, I posted a message on Drupal.org about banning unethical modules hosted on Drupal.org. This is my concern:

There are a few modules on Drupal.org that are clearly unethical. For example, Death By Captcha.

I have several issues with Drupal.org hosting such modules:

  1. I don't want to share the same space as spammers.
  2. I don't want the Drupal Association spending money and resources to host such modules.

Life is hard enough fighting spam every day, at home and at the office. Spam wastes our time, money, and resources. We don't need to be supporting them here on Drupal.org.

If we're going to agree to ban unethical modules, I think we should be very specific about what kinds of modules will be automatically declared unethical. We should then add this to the approval process documentation.

I'm in favour of banning modules that:

  1. Provide or integrate with anti-CAPTCHA services.

What is ethical?

That's exactly what I'd like to define in this issue. I think we can start with banning modules that provide or integrate with anti-CAPTCHA services.

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