OpenRoots

ORA-2.2

A reseller or systems integrator using it in a larger product, under ORA 2.2

Packages and resells software built by others. The Work is one component and customers principally pay for substantial independent functionality. This resolves to the Canopy tier.

Tier

Canopy

Owed

0.5% of revenue attributable to products or services that depend on the Work, capped at $250,000 per year, plus a quarterly Canopy Report.

Sections in play

1.8, 1.9, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A reseller or systems integrator

Packages and resells software built by others.

varies

Situation

Using it in a larger product

The Work is one component and customers principally pay for substantial independent functionality.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Canopy. Packages and resells software built by others. 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?

0.5% of revenue attributable to products or services that depend on the Work, capped at $250,000 per year, plus a quarterly Canopy Report.

Sections 5.1, 5.2

clear

Does this count as Production Use?

Yes. The Work is one component and customers principally pay for substantial independent functionality. Section 1.9 covers internal operation at operating scope and systems made available externally to customers or the public. Development, testing, evaluation, research, and personal non-revenue use remain outside it.

Sections 1.9

Cautions

What this situation gets wrong most often.

  • Section 1.7 excludes an entity acting as a reseller or intermediary for a Legal Entity above the threshold from the Root tier, even where its own revenue is small.

  • 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.

Evaluating it internallyOperating it internallyShipping it in productionEmbedding it in a product you sellOffering it as a hosted serviceForking and modifying itRedistributing it without chargeReselling itRepackaging itPorting itListing it in a marketplaceDeploying to customer-controlled infrastructureDeploying it for a paying clientTraining a model on itIncluding it in a datasetUsing it for retrieval augmentationCrossing the revenue thresholdBeing acquiredChecking licence continuityCombining it with other licencesNaming the project publiclyContributing backBeing auditedDiscovering you are in breachThe Licensor disappearsProducing an SBOM

Non-normative. Where this and the licence text disagree, the licence text applies.