OpenRoots

ORA-2.2

A university or school the licensor disappears, under ORA 2.2

Educational institution, teaching or research use. The maintainer stops publishing, is acquired, or becomes insolvent. 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, 7.2

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A university or school

Educational institution, teaching or research use.

any

Situation

The Licensor disappears

The maintainer stops publishing, is acquired, or becomes insolvent.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Root. Educational institution, teaching or research use. 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

conditional

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.

  • 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.

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 marketplaceUsing it in a larger productDeploying 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 breachProducing an SBOM

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