OpenRoots

ORA-2.2

A cloud or hosting provider redistributing it without charge, under ORA 2.2

Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business. Passing the Work along without monetizing it or presenting it as a substitute offering. This resolves to the Canopy tier.

Tier

Canopy

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

A cloud or hosting provider

Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business.

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.

clear

Which tier applies?

Canopy. Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business. 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

clear

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

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