# Watermark always visible with overlapping text

**URL:** <https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/watermark-always-visible-with-overlapping-text/172>\
**Category:** User Support\
**Tags:** english-en\
**Created:** [January 30, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/watermark-always-visible-with-overlapping-text/172 "2021-01-30T23:39:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tewan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@Tewan](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/Tewan)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/watermark-always-visible-with-overlapping-text/172/1 "2021-01-30T23:39:55Z")

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I just created my Nextcloud + Collabora Online CODE appliance and it’s working fine apart from this one thing that makes it pretty much unusable for me.

There’s this constant overlay in every file I edit with collabora. The text is overlapping so i have no idea what it says. Something about Support?

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/collaboraonline/original/1X/e40448b4e5a2aa37cda958100cb27ae518308d5f.png)  
Am I expected to pay to remove this watermark? I thought this was free open source software

I don’t have secure view watermarking enabled so no idea why this shows

Please help with this! I really want to use collabora online, but this watermark makes it unusable!

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**Author:** ![kara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kara](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/kara)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/watermark-always-visible-with-overlapping-text/172/2 "2021-02-14T18:06:06Z")

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Hi Tewan,

Collabora Online (COOL) is an open-source product that can be bought on a yearly subscription basis, along with a support package. It is suitable for enterprise, business, educational users who want a fully-supported product.

Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) is -as its name states- the development version of COOL, and is usually fine for home users who want to run their own online office suite for family & friends, and comes free of any charges (apart from the usual costs of your hosting provider, if any).

There is no compulsory watermarking, nagging you to pay, on CODE. CODE is a truly open source project/product, not a shareware. 😉

You can start by checking the settings on your loolwsd.xml file. There are some options related to watermarking there.