ORA-2.2
An AI model provider redistributing it without charge, under ORA 2.2
Trains, fine-tunes, or serves machine learning models commercially. Passing the Work along without monetizing it or presenting it as a substitute offering. This resolves to the Canopy tier.
Tier
Owed
A quarterly Canopy Report. Section 5.1 imposes a royalty only when the Canopy Licensee makes Production Use.
Sections in play
1.8, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2
Who and what
The situation being resolved.
Actor
An AI model provider
Trains, fine-tunes, or serves machine learning models commercially.
over 2M USD
Situation
Redistributing it without charge
Passing the Work along without monetizing it or presenting it as a substitute offering.
Rulings
2 questions resolved against the text.
Which tier applies?
Canopy. Trains, fine-tunes, or serves machine learning models commercially. Section 5.2 reporting applies; the Section 5.1 royalty attaches when the Licensee makes Production Use and only to attributable revenue.
Sections 1.8, 3.1, 5.1
Is anything owed?
A quarterly Canopy Report. Section 5.1 imposes a royalty only when the Canopy Licensee makes Production Use.
Sections 5.1, 5.2
Cautions
What this situation gets wrong most often.
Attribution lives in the package manifest under ORA 8.1, not only in documentation, because an agent package is installed by a machine that never reads a directory listing.
Same actor
Other situations for this party.
Non-normative. Where this and the licence text disagree, the licence text applies.