In Sandstorm, we are encoding powerbox queries in packed base64 strings which may be placed in URL query parameters or the like. The strings are provided in interfaces called browser-side. We anticipate that some developers will prefer to specify a hardcoded string rather than generate it on-the-fly, since Cap'n Proto is not well-supported in browsers today, and anyway the developer may have no other reason to have a Cap'n Proto dependency at all, and powerbox queries are often static.

In this context, speed is irrelevant, while having a compact encoding is desirable. It felt sad to me to leave in the segment table in this context, adding redundant bytes when we want a compact encoding.

For portions currently copyright by Kenton (most of it), transfer copyright to Sandstorm Development Group, Inc. (Kenton's company).

The license change is practically meaningless, as MIT and BSD 2-clause are legally equivalent. However, the BSD 2-clause license is sometimes confused for its ugly siblings, BSD 3-clause and BSD 4-clause. The MIT license is more immediately recognizeable for what it is.

Rémy Blank and Jason Choy (the two non-trivial contributors) are on record as approving this change:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/capnproto/xXDd2HUOCcc/gbe_COIuXKYJ

Remove 'has' for primitive fields.  Dynamic version always returns true.  This also means that primitives are always included in text format, even if they are default-valued.