GSIP 224 Individual contributor clarification

A quick update to reflect GeoServer commit access is granted to individuals (not a group or company).
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 All contributors are asked to provide an assignment agreement for working on the project:
 
 * `corporate_contributor <https://www.osgeo.org/resources/corporate-contributor-license/>`__
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+  Individual contributor agreement.
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 * `individual_contributor <https://www.osgeo.org/resources/individual-contributor-license/>`__
 
+  Corporate contributor agreement to authorize employees to work on project. May also be used as a software grant to donate software to the project.
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+GeoServer is grateful that organizations of all shapes and sizes support our project with in-kind participation of their employees. Extending commit access is made to individuals directly based on their expertise demonstrated over time.
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 This agreement can be printed, signed, scanned and emailed to `info@osgeo.org <mailto:info@osgeo.org>`_ at Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). `OSGeo <http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html>`_ is the  non-profit which holds the GeoServer codebase for the community.
 
 The `contribution licenses <http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/legal/licenses.html>`_ are used by OSGeo projects seeking to assign copyright directly to the foundation. These licenses are directly derived from the Apache code contribution licenses (CLA V2.0 and CCLA v r190612).