OpenRoots

ORA-2.2

A government body checking licence continuity, under ORA 2.2

Public sector at any level, national through municipal. You need to know whether a release ever changes licence by time alone. 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, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A government body

Public sector at any level, national through municipal.

any

Situation

Checking licence continuity

You need to know whether a release ever changes licence by time alone.

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

Does the licence change by time alone?

No. Section 7 states that current releases do not convert automatically to Apache, MIT, Creative Commons, or any other fallback licence. A later version can apply to future releases only according to Section 16.

Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

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.

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