OpenRoots

ORD-2.2

A government body evaluating it internally, under ORD 2.2

Public sector at any level, national through municipal. Development, testing, evaluation, or research inside your organisation. 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

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A government body

Public sector at any level, national through municipal.

any

Situation

Evaluating it internally

Development, testing, evaluation, or research inside your organisation.

Rulings

2 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Root. Public sector at any level, national through municipal. 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

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.

  • 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.

Same actor

Other situations for this party.

Operating 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 breachThe Licensor disappearsProducing an SBOM

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