[gnu.org #1534539] Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

[Karl Berry]

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.