Mozilla Sunbird

Template:Short description Template:Third-party Template:UpdateTemplate:Infobox software Mozilla Sunbird is a discontinued free and open-source, cross-platform calendar application that was developed by the Mozilla Foundation, Sun Microsystems and many volunteers.<ref name="volunteerlist">Mozilla contributors list, Mozilla.org</ref> Mozilla Sunbird was described as "a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language".<ref name="mainsunbirdpage">The Sunbird Project - Standalone Calendar - Main project page describing the project.</ref> Announced in July 2003,<ref name="sunbirdAnnounced">Mozilla Sunbird Standalone Calendar Project Launches - MozillaZine Talkback - MozillaZine article announcing the Sunbird Project</ref> Sunbird was a standalone version of the Mozilla Calendar Project.

It was developed as a standalone version of the Lightning calendar and scheduling extension for the Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey mail clients. Development of Sunbird was ended with release 1.0 beta 1 to focus on development of Mozilla Lightning.<ref>Sunbird 1.0 beta1 Release Notes: "This is the last public Sunbird release by the Calendar Project." Retrieved 2010-04-01.</ref><ref>Calendar Project at a critical juncture Template:Webarchive, Calendar Weblog. Retrieved 2010-04-01.</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Since both projects share the same code base, any contribution to one is a direct contribution to the other.

Trademark issues and Iceowl

Template:Main Although it is released under a MPL, MPL/GPL/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.

See also

• Lightning for Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey
• List of personal information managers

External links

• Template:Official website
• MozillaWiki
• The Sunbird development blog Template:Webarchive
• Sunbird Portable by PortableApps.com
• Linux sunbird installer