Mozilla Sunbird is a discontinued

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calendar application that was developed by the Mozilla Foundation,

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and many volunteers.Mozilla contributors list
''Mozilla.org'' Mozilla Sunbird was described as "a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL 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 natural phenomenon consisting of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions. One or both regions are within the atmosphere, with the second region sometimes occurring on ...

calendar and scheduling extension for the

Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source email client that also functions as a personal information manager with a Digital calendar, calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix (protocol), Matrix), ...

and SeaMonkey mail clients. Development of Sunbird was ended with release 1.0 beta 1 to focus on development of Mozilla Lightning. 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 Microsoft Office by combining OpenOffice.org 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. 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/ GPL/

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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 Debian () is a free and open-source software, free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock in August 1993. Debian is one of the oldest operating systems based on the Linux kerne ...

project created Iceowl, a virtually identical version without the branding restrictions.

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{{FLOSS Mozilla Free calendaring software Personal information managers Cross-platform software C++ software Gecko-based software Portable software 2003 software Software using the Mozilla Public License Software that uses XUL Software that uses SQLite Discontinued software

Sun contributions

Trademark issues and Iceowl

Release history

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