Odd footer in template

Well I am still pretty new to wordpress but am learning new stuff almost every day. I have been working very hard ad doing a lot of modding to a template I found. I really liked most of the features and looks of the template. However like I said I still had lots of modding to do. Of course since it was a free template it has that darn little thing where it says "this footer must stay intact".

However I was trying to experiment and make sure I "could" edit it if I wanted to. Well I hope you can understand what I mean by that.

Anyways, i have been staring at what looks like some kind of code but I am completely confused by it. Here is what I am talking about.

That supposedly says something like "This template designed by Casino". I do not really know what to think by all of this. Can someone shine some sort of light on this for me?

 

You can use this tool to decrypt the code: http://www.tareeinternet.com/scripts/decrypt.php (you can see the decrypted code below)

By the way, encrypting is useless - everyone who is not stupid can remove the author's / sponsored links anyway. Encrypted code in templates only pisses off users. They usually are not bothered by any link (honest people respect the template license) but by the code that may hide unpleasant surprises.

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<div class="clear"></div>
</div>	<!-- /Main -->
<!-- Footer -->	<div id="footer">
	<!-- Footerbar -->
<div id="footerbar">
	<div id="footerbar-left">

<h3>Recent Articles</h3>

<ul class="footerbar-left-in">

	<?php wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&limit=4'); ?>

</ul>
	</div>
	<div id="footerbar-center">

<h3>Recent Comments</h3>

<ul class="footerbar-center-in">

	<?php


$sql = "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT 0 , 4";


$comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);


foreach ($comments as $comment) {


	$data = $comment->comment_author . " @ " . $comment->post_title;


	echo "<li><a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->comment_post_ID) . "\">" . substr($data,0,40) . " ...</a></li>";   


}

	?>

</ul>
	</div>
	<div id="footerbar-right">

<h3>Theme Credits</h3>

<ul class="footerbar-right-in">

	Designed by: <a href="http://www.goonlinecasino.com" target="_blank">Online Casino</a>

</ul>
	</div>
</div>
<!-- /Footerbar -->

<!-- Copyright -->
<div id="copyright">
	(c)Copyrighted <a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a> Theme, All Rights Reserved.
</div>
<!-- /Copyright -->
</div>	<!-- Footer --></div></div></div><!-- /Page --><?php wp_footer(); ?></body></html><?

PHP:

 

Well thank you for that information. I figured it was some type of encryption, I had just not really heard of encrypted web coding before. Thank you greatly again for that information.

 

Do not Remove Footer Credits. DeCryption is done to avoid people from Remove Footer Links. I Hope You won't do That.

 

No I am not going to remove credit, just edit it a bit because I think the way they have it looks very bad. I have done so much editing to the template that removing it is tempting, but I do not think I will.