The files in this directory originated with Joao Cardoso's 2003 download of Pavel Sakov's nn library which was immediately stripped down by Joao to just the parts he needed to help implement the plgriddata API for the 'plplot' C library and with calls to the non-free triangle library that appeared in the original nn replaced by equivalent calls to the free qhull library . The PLplot development team have been maintaining that stripped version of the nn library ever since with no further contribution (except for the new LICENSE text referred to below) from Pavel Sakov. As of 2017-07-11 Pavel Sakov gave us permission to update the license of our stripped version of nn to be the same as the current licence of his modern nn version (without the trailing note concerning the triangle library since that is not relevant to our stripped version) which we cut and pasted on that date from and stored in the LICENSE file in this directory. The only additional changes we have made to that file are to add additional lines to the copyright notice at the top reflecting Joao Cardoso's initial commit in 2003 and the further commits since then (as recorded in our software repository log) to this stripped version of the nn library by him and other members of the PLplot development team.