OpenRoots

ORD-2.2

An individual developer discovering you are in breach, under ORD 2.2

One person, no company, releasing or consuming work in their own name. You realise an obligation was missed, and it may have been missed for some time. This resolves to the Root tier.

Tier

Root

Owed

Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.

Sections in play

1.7, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 2.1, 2.2

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

An individual developer

One person, no company, releasing or consuming work in their own name.

none

Situation

Discovering you are in breach

You realise an obligation was missed, and it may have been missed for some time.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Root. One person, no company, releasing or consuming work in their own name. 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

clear

What happens on breach?

Thirty days to cure from written notice, under Section 10.1. Reinstatement is available on curing and paying what would have been owed, with interest, unless you have already had rights terminated for the same Work within twenty-four months. Downstream recipients who remain compliant are unaffected by Section 10.3.

Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

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.