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Mozdev.org

Defunct software development website

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mozdev.org was a website that offered free project hosting, and software development tools to the Mozilla community. It hosted extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and stand-alone Mozilla-based applications. All projects must have been under a license approved by the OSI. According to the site, it hosted over 250 active projects. The site was shut down in July 2020 and currently redirects to mozilla.org.

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