These templates are by Chip Midnight
From http://forums-archive.secondlife.com/109/72/40762/1.html
"Here's the final complete CMFF clothing and skin templates with lots of useful features to make your life easier. Use them any way you like, just please keep my name on them if you modify them."
Most of the links in that post are now dead, the SL CLothing Tutorial wiki page [0] has an active link to the 512x512 PSD files at [1].
The original Linden body templates were made available under CC BY 3.0