Explain the free installation options for Collabora

[AdamPS]

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Currently (Jan 2024) it seems that:

• Installing your own CODE server has a nag. Home users can disable this with the configuration setting home_mode.enable.
• richdocumentscode is nag-free but scalability limited

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[joshtrichards]

Is the title a typo? I.e. was it supposed to say "nag-free" instead? Otherwise I'm confused about what context you meant free in and the connection with the so-called "nag" given the way you summarized your bullet points.

• Installing your own CODE server has a nag. Home users can disable this with the configuration setting home_mode.enable.
• richdocumentscode is nag-free but scalability limited

AFAIK these have the same underlying licenses[1] and are virtually the same thing (outside of the proxy.php script in the latter and some miscellaneous auxillary bits).

IANAL but since this is free/open (libre) software:

• anyone is already free to disable/adjust any behavior they don't like
• the home_mode.enable isn't restricted in who can use it and it's just a convenient pre-provided option knob to implement a behavior adjustment some prefer without them needing to touch the code or package the software themselves

Is the issue really the so-called "nag" or is it more about how it was implemented? I mean what's deemed an acceptable "nag" versus an unacceptable one seems to be open to interpretation and vary from person to person.

[1] MPL 2.0 I believe