OpenRoots

ORD-2.2

An enterprise naming the project publicly, under ORD 2.2

Large organisation with procurement, legal review, and an SBOM process. Saying your product is built on or compatible with the Work. This resolves to the Canopy tier.

Tier

Canopy

Owed

A quarterly Canopy Report. Section 5.1 imposes a royalty only when the Canopy Licensee makes Production Use.

Sections in play

1.8, 11.1, 11.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

An enterprise

Large organisation with procurement, legal review, and an SBOM process.

over 50M USD

Situation

Naming the project publicly

Saying your product is built on or compatible with the Work.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Canopy. Large organisation with procurement, legal review, and an SBOM process. 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?

A quarterly Canopy Report. Section 5.1 imposes a royalty only when the Canopy Licensee makes Production Use.

Sections 5.1, 5.2

clear

May you say what you built on?

Yes, irrevocably, provided you are current on Section 5. Section 11.2 guarantees nominative fair use, and that right cannot be revoked, fee-gated, or used as leverage against a paying licensee.

Sections 11.1, 11.2, 8.1

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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