The Mozilla Calendar Project was the name for the
Mozilla
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project that led to the development of
Sunbird
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calendar application and the
Lightning
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integrated calendar.
Sunbird and Lightning are both
free software
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, released under the Mozilla
tri-license
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: the
Mozilla Public License
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, the
GNU General Public License
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and the
GNU Lesser General Public License
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.
History
The project started with a single extension for the Mozilla projects known as Mozilla Calendar. It was a
free software
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/
open source
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calendar and
personal information manager
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based on the open
iCalendar
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standard. It was developed to be part of the
Mozilla Application Suite
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project. However, Mozilla Sunbird and the Lightning project have replaced the Mozilla Calendar. As with other Mozilla projects, Mozilla Calendar was
cross-platform
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, and used the
XUL
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user interface language. It worked with
Microsoft Windows
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,
Linux
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,
Mac OS X
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, and
FreeBSD
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.
The Mozilla Calendar project was announced by the
Mozilla Organization
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(now the
Mozilla Foundation
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) in October 2001. The original code, used by Mozilla Calendar and now the Mozilla Sunbird, was donated by OEone (now Axentra),
who had developed it for use in their Mozilla-based HomeBase DESKTOP system. The project was initially led by OEone employee Mike Potter. Shortly after Mike Potter and his team had to pull out of development due to other projects taking precedence,
Mostafa Hosseini was announced as the new project lead.
The initial plan was for Mozilla Calendar to eventually be integrated into the
Mozilla Application Suite
The Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as Mozilla, marketed as the Mozilla Suite) is a discontinued cross-platform integrated Internet suite. Its development was initiated by Netscape Communications Corporation, before their acquisition b ...
alongside the other components. However, this plan was dropped when Mozilla decided to focus on its nascent standalone applications rather than the integrated suite.
Mozilla Calendar could be installed as a component in the Mozilla Application Suite, or as an
extension
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in either the
Mozilla Firefox
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standalone browser or the
Mozilla Thunderbird
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standalone mail and newsgroups client. The extension has now been replaced by the
Lightning
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project, a project with similar features, but with tighter integration with Thunderbird.
See also
*
List of personal information managers
The following is a list of personal information managers ( PIMs) and online organizers.
Applications
Discontinued applications
See also Comparisons
* Comparison of email clients
* Comparison of file managers
* Comparison of note-taking ...
References
External links
Project home page
{{Calendaring software
Free calendaring software
Free personal information managers
Mozilla Application Suite