OpenRoots

ORA-2.2

An enterprise forking and modifying it, under ORA 2.2

Large organisation with procurement, legal review, and an SBOM process. Changing the Work and distributing your version. 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, 8.1, 8.2

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

An enterprise

Large organisation with procurement, legal review, and an SBOM process.

over 50M USD

Situation

Forking and modifying it

Changing the Work and distributing your version.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Canopy. Large organisation with procurement, legal review, and an SBOM process. 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

clear

What travels with a fork?

Preserve manifest attribution under Section 8.1 and state the model, runtime, or protocol version against which the Modification was validated under Section 8.2.

Sections 8.1, 8.2

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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