(I'm reposting this, since I sent the original over eight hours ago and it
hasn't shown up here. Apologies if you get it twice.)

Hi

Here is a patch to resolve the license issues with
NodeCachingLinkedList. Included in this patch is:

- CommonsLinkedList, a version of java.util.LinkedList that we can
  distribute with [collections].

  A few points about this class:

  - Is the name ok? I couldn't think of anything else to distinguish
    it from the standard implementation.

  - It is package visible, perhaps it should be public.

  - It extends LinkedList rather than AbstractSequentialList. Since it
    doesn't override every method of List there will be problems if
    LinkedList overrides more methods in the future. (This was a
    problem with the old implementation of NodeCachingLinkedList too.)

    Also, extending LinkedList takes up a little bit more memory.

  - It will probably be a little slower than LinkedList since I have
    made an effort to break out common code rather than inlining
    everything. However, the difference should be very small.

- NodeCachingLinkedList which overrides several of CommonsLinkedList
  methods to allow caching of nodes. Jeff may wish to look at this to
  see if I've written it correctly. Of particular note, I have changed
  the default maximum cache size from 1000000 down to 20.

- TestLinkedList, for testing classes that extend LinkedList. Being
  able to write this class is one good reason for CommonsLinkedList to
  extend LinkedList.

- Tests for CommonsLinkedList and NodeCachingLinkedList.

- Serialized versions of CommonsLinkedList and NodeCachingLinkedList
  that can be placed in data/test.

- Patch to TestObject.getCompatibilityVersion() to use a String
  version instead of an int version. This allows version strings like
  "2.1" or "2.2". This also required changes to several other test
  cases which overrode the method.

Rich

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