OpenRoots

ORA-2.2

A government body being audited, under ORA 2.2

Public sector at any level, national through municipal. The Licensor or Clearinghouse requests supporting documentation. This resolves to the Root tier.

Tier

Root

Owed

Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.

Sections in play

1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 5.3

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A government body

Public sector at any level, national through municipal.

any

Situation

Being audited

The Licensor or Clearinghouse requests supporting documentation.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Root. Public sector at any level, national through municipal. Below $20,000,000 in trailing revenue, or within an exempt category, no Canopy royalty applies. Sections 4, 6, 8, and 10 still bind every Licensee.

Sections 1.7, 2.1, 2.2

clear

Is anything owed?

Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.

Sections 2.1

clear

What can an audit actually require?

Documentation once in any twelve month period, absent a documented reason to suspect misstatement. Where such a reason exists, an independent auditor may review under mutual NDA at the requesting party's expense, unless an underpayment above five percent is established, in which case you bear the reasonable cost.

Sections 5.3

Cautions

What this situation gets wrong most often.

  • Revenue is measured across entities under common control, per Section 1.4. A parent company above the threshold makes its subsidiary a Canopy Licensee regardless of that subsidiary's own turnover.

  • 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.