According to my information based on conversations with Check Point employees both former and current, SecuRemote and SecureClient are actually different code bases. You can tell because they behavior a little differently when it comes to NAT traversal.
So, the following statement isn't exactly correct:
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Originally Posted by CheckPointBrad  I asked someone who uses checkpoint and they told me that you can turn on office mode with secureremote. Install secureclient on the clients and as long as you do not run "policy server" that there is no-cost. |
SecuRemote doesn't support Office Mode. Test it out, if you get different results, please post them. This make the lives of at least four admins I know much easier.
While it's true that Check Point doesn't enforce licensing with the SecureClient applications, you're supposed to purchase licenses to use it.
This answers your question. Not running the policy server is indeed free of charge. In fact, you can not install any Check Point product for free. ;-) You can also install SecureClient without having any licenses (see above). SecureClient will then support office mode, at least it did when I was administering NG a couple years ago. I can't guarantee that the latest and greatest binaries will still do that. Bottom line is, this isn't really related to SecuRemote per se.