This commit:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=7ac276b42cbeb648c6b11e5637b2b05be951fd6d
changed the quoting for INSTALL to quote `like this' instead of 'like
this'. I expect this was because you used older texinfo to generate
those files. I redid it with modern texinfo 6.0 and fixed it with this
commit:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=df0db0ade09ee7aeff9febbeaf4450d30e0ca1ad
The effect of the two combined changes is merely to update the copyright
dates.