ORA-2.2
A reseller or systems integrator the licensor disappears, under ORA 2.2
Packages and resells software built by others. The maintainer stops publishing, is acquired, or becomes insolvent. This resolves to the Canopy tier.
Tier
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, 7.2
Who and what
The situation being resolved.
Actor
A reseller or systems integrator
Packages and resells software built by others.
varies
Situation
The Licensor disappears
The maintainer stops publishing, is acquired, or becomes insolvent.
Rulings
3 questions resolved against the text.
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
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
What if the Licensor is gone?
Nothing changes by time alone. Your rights remain the rights in the version you received, and no fallback licence appears because the Licensor disappeared. The public canonical text and digest are what you rely on.
Sections 7.2
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.
Non-normative. Where this and the licence text disagree, the licence text applies.