OpenRoots

ORD-2.2

A cloud or hosting provider repackaging it, under ORD 2.2

Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business. Wrapping or bundling the Work and commercializing the package as the product. 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

1.13, 1.8, 1.9, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A cloud or hosting provider

Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business.

over 2M USD

Situation

Repackaging it

Wrapping or bundling the Work and commercializing the package as the product.

Rulings

4 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Canopy. Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business. 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. Wrapping or bundling the Work and commercializing the package as the product. 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

conditional

Is this a Competing Offering?

Yes if the value derives entirely or substantially from the Work itself. Section 4 applies to every Licensee, including Root. A larger independent product remains allowed, but selling, porting, repackaging, hosting, or redistributing the Work as the product requires a separate written agreement.

Sections 1.13, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Cautions

What this situation gets wrong most often.

  • Section 8.3 of ORD requires a withdrawal of consent to propagate to any derivative you have distributed. Whether that is operationally achievable at depth is a published open question.

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