Mozilla Sunbird is a discontinued free and open-source,

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calendar application that was developed by the

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, Sun Microsystems and many volunteers.Mozilla contributors list
''Mozilla.org'' Mozilla Sunbird was described as "a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's

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user interface language".The Sunbird Project - Standalone Calendar
- Main project page describing the project. Announced in July 2003,
- MozillaZine article announcing the Sunbird Project Sunbird was a standalone version of the Mozilla Calendar Project. It was developed as a standalone version of the

Lightning Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of an avera ...

calendar and scheduling extension for the

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and

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mail clients. Development of Sunbird was ended with release 1.0 beta 1 to focus on development of

Mozilla Lightning The Lightning project, announced on December 22, 2004, and developed by the Mozilla Foundation, produces an extension that adds calendar and scheduling functionality to the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and newsgroup client and SeaMonkey internet s ...

. The latest development version of Sunbird remains 1.0b1 from January 2010, and no later version has been announced. Unlike Lightning, Sunbird no longer receives updates to its time zone database.

Sun contributions

Sun Microsystems contributed significantly to the Lightning extension project to provide users with a free and open-source alternative to

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by combining

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and Thunderbird/Lightning. Sun's key focus areas in addition to general bug fixing were calendar views, team/collaboration features and support for the

Sun Java System Calendar Server The Sun Java System Calendar Server was Sun's calendar (scheduling) server. The currently available version is 6.3 which is now part of the Sun Java System Communications Suite. Users can access their calendar and task list items using a variety ...

. Since both projects share the same code base, any contribution to one is a direct contribution to the other.

Trademark issues and Iceowl

Although it is released under a MPL, MPL/

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/ LGPL tri-license, there are trademark restrictions in place on Mozilla Sunbird which prevent the distribution of modified versions with the Mozilla branding. As a result, the Debian project created Iceowl, a virtually identical version without the branding restrictions.

Release history

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External links

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MozillaWiki

The Sunbird development blog

Sunbird Portable
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Linux sunbird installer
{{FLOSS Mozilla Free calendaring software Personal information managers Cross-platform software C++ software Gecko-based software Portable software 2003 software Software using the Mozilla license Software that uses XUL Software that uses SQLite Discontinued software

Sun contributions

Trademark issues and Iceowl

Release history

See also

References

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