Asher and all - the CC-BY-ND (or, previously, "verbatim copying is allowed") is intended to refer to the web page as posted publicly (that's why it's visible text), not the gendocs_* template files themselves.
I suppose there should be commented-out text stating the license of the template text, which should be "all permissive" or "public domain". I doubt those tiny template files are copyrightable anyway. This discrepancy has always existed but no one has brought it up before. Anyone can feel free to fix it in gnulib as far as I'm concerned. The minimal "autoupdate" commit comment is because at that time the gendoc_template* files in gnulib were slave copies of masters in Texinfo. Evidently that changed at some point, since now the files are not copied from anywhere. I no longer remember when or why that changed; maybe because I stopped maintaining Texinfo. If you look back in the git history for gnulib/config/srclist.txt it should be visible, if it matters. (I don't see that it does; fine for them to be in gnulib.) You don't need to resend mail to licensing. They can merge multiple messages into one ticket if they so choose. It happens all the time. It's a deficiency in RT. --hope this helps, karl.
