Substitute CREDITS content with pointers to manual (#1601)

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-CREDITS: 2011/02/24
-
-The core team of PostGIS is:
- 
- mcayland (Mark Cave-Ayland) <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk> - psc, index support, PostgreSQL/PostGIS integration issues
- chodgson (Chris Hodgson) - psc, core website maintenance, postgis core bug fixes, build bot, osgeo incubation management
- pramsey (Paul Ramsey) <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca> - psc, chair, index, geodetic, infrastructure, shapefile gui loader
- robe (Regina Obe) <lr@pcorp.us> - psc, documentation, windows experimental and production builds, QA testing, plpgsql functions
- strk (Sandro Santilli) <strk@keybit.net> - psc, GEOS, topology, raster
- kneufeld (Kevin Neufeld) - prior psc, documentation, plpgsql functions, document and buildbot, website administration (past)
- colivier (Olivier Courtin) <olivier.courtin@camptocamp.com> - output functions, 3D support
- pracine (Pierre Racine) <Pierre.Racine@sbf.ulaval.ca> - raster
- jorgearevalo (Jorge Arévalo) <jorge.arevalo at deimos-space.com> - raster 
- mleslie (Mark Leslie) <mark.leslie@lisasoft.com> - curve support, shp2pgsql gui loader 
- nicklas (Nicklas Avén) <nicklas.aven@jordogskog.no> - measurement functions (2D and 3D)
- mloskot (Mateusz Loskot) - raster
- dustymugs (Bborie Park) bkpark at ucdavis.edu - raster 
-
-All versions include substantial contributions from the 
-core team.
-
-
-VERSION SPECIFIC CREDITS:
-
-PostGIS was originally developed by Refractions Research Inc, of Victora, 
-British Columbia, Canada (http://www.refractions.net), as a project 
-in using PostgreSQL as a geospatial data-store. Refractions continues to
-provide hosting and infrastructure support to the project. 
-
-The following is a partial list of contributors who have participated 
-in the project:
-
-See the postgis manual and the ChangeLog for more recent contributor credits and versions.
-
-Version 1.2.1 of PostGIS includes patches from:
-  Eduin Carrillo <yecarrillo@cas.gov.co> for AsKML() and Transform() 
-  short circuit.
-
-Version 1.1.0 of PostGIS includes patches from:
-  Obe, Regina with -k switch for pgsql2shp (for City of Boston (DND) ).
-
-Version 1.0.0 of PostGIS includes code from:
-  Mark Cave-Ayland <m.cave-ayland@webbased.co.uk> with new positional
-        operators, join estimator and general testing and support.
-  Markus Schaber <markus@schabi.de> author of the jdbc2 interface
-
-Version 0.9 of PostGIS includes patches from:
-  Klaus Foerster <klaus@svg.cc> on AsSVG()
-  Olivier Courtin <pnine@free.fr> on AsSVG()
-  Bruno Wolff III on the distance_sphere algorithm
-
-Version 0.8 of PostGIS includes patches from:
-  Carl Anderson on schemas
-  STRK on numerous bug fixes and enhancements
-  Ralph Mason on WKT parsing for LWGEOM
-  Mark Cave-Ayland with help on PgSQL 7.5 statistics
-
-Version 0.7 of PostGIS includes patches from:
-  Steffen Macke on numerous loader/dumper bugs.
-  Bernhard Reiter on some documentation issues and a loader limit.
-  Mark Cave-Ayland on truly_inside().
-  STRK on shp2pgsql improvements
-
-Version 0.5 of PostGIS includes contributions from:
-  Geographic Data BC (David Skea and Mark Sondheim) with funding and 
-  direction on adding calculations on a spheroid to PostGIS.
-
-Version 0.2 of PostGIS includes contributions from:
-  Norman Vine on CygWin compilation issues
-
-Version 0.1 of PostGIS included constributions from:
-  Dave Blasby - Core server objects and indexing (original contributions)
-  Paul Ramsey - Extensions to the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, doco, web.
-  Jeff Lounsbury - Shape file loader/dumper.
-
+For updated credits, see the postgis manual.
 
+Offline: see doc/README
+Online: http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-svn/postgis_introduction.html#credits