Any Own<T> can be converted to Own<void> (or Own<const void>). The main purpose of this is to give someone a way to invoke an object's disposer without them having to know anything about the type.

A compatibility layer is provided to ease migration.

Thanks to Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com> for much help getting this started.

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

Optimize promise tail calls by making ChainPromiseNode automatically detect and remove redundant nodes.

Basic code generation starting to work.  My machine just did something weird so I'm submitting and pushing in case of imminant hardware failure...

Moar type-safety, rewriting WireFormat to avoid descriptors (incomplete), decided struct pointers should point at the beginning of the struct after all.