If either the Mozilla Foundation or the Thunderbird Council becomes unhappy with the new arrangement, either can "discontinue the Mozilla Foundation’s role as the legal and fiscal host of the Thunderbird project" with six months' notice. In the long-term, the Thunderbird Council would also like to end its reliance on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, but for the foreseeable future, the e-mail client will continue to use Gecko and to stay close to Mozilla "in the hope that it gives us better access to people who can help us plan for and sort through Gecko-driven incompatibilities." "Our infrastructure is moving to and we’re already running some Thunderbird-only services, like the ISPDB (used for auto configuring users’ e-mail accounts), on our own," he writes. Yesterday, Mozilla Senior Add-ons Technical Editor Philipp Kewisch announced Mozilla's future plans for Thunderbird-the Mozilla Foundation will "continue as Thunderbird’s legal, fiscal, and cultural home," but on the condition that the Thunderbird Council maintains a good working relationship with Mozilla leadership and that Thunderbird works to reduce its "operational and technical" reliance on Mozilla.Īs a first step toward operational independence, the Thunderbird Council has been soliciting donations from users, which Kewisch says has become "a strong revenue stream" that is helping to pay for servers and staff. Further Reading Thunderbird “a tax” on Firefox development, and Mozilla wants to drop it
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