Amends README.md

Clarifies the licensing portion to reflect what the changelog header says, since otherwise people might think that the sounds and sprites are also under AGPL3, which would conflict with what the changelog header says.
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Neerti
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### LICENSE
Polaris is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, which can be found in full in LICENSE-AGPL3.txt.
The code for Polaris is licensed under the [GNU Affero General Public License](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html) version 3, which can be found in full in LICENSE-AGPL3.txt.
Commits with a git authorship date prior to `1420675200 +0000` (2015/01/08 00:00) are licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3, which can be found in full in LICENSE-GPL3.txt.
Code with a git authorship date prior to `1420675200 +0000` (2015/01/08 00:00) are licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3, which can be found in full in LICENSE-GPL3.txt.
All commits whose authorship dates are not prior to `1420675200 +0000` are assumed to be licensed under AGPL v3, if you wish to license under GPL v3 please make this clear in the commit message and any added files.
All code whose authorship dates are not prior to `1420675200 +0000` are assumed to be licensed under AGPL v3, if you wish to license under GPL v3 please make this clear in the commit message and any added files.
If you wish to develop and host this codebase in a closed source manner you may use all commits prior to `1420675200 +0000`, which are licensed under GPL v3. The major change here is that if you host a server using any code licensed under AGPLv3 you are required to provide full source code for your servers users as well including addons and modifications you have made.
If you wish to develop and host this codebase in a closed source manner you may use all code prior to `1420675200 +0000`, which are licensed under GPL v3. The major change here is that if you host a server using any code licensed under AGPLv3 you are required to provide full source code for your servers users as well including addons and modifications you have made.
See [here](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html) for more information.
All assets including icons and sound are under a [CC BY-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) license unless otherwise indicated.
### GETTING THE CODE
The simplest way to obtain the code is using the github .zip feature.