OpenRoots

ORL-2.2

A consultancy or agency deploying to customer-controlled infrastructure, under ORL 2.2

Delivering client work using the Work, billing the client for services. Providing professional services while the customer owns and controls the infrastructure and account. This resolves to the Root tier.

Tier

Root

Owed

Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.

Sections in play

1.7, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A consultancy or agency

Delivering client work using the Work, billing the client for services.

under 2M USD

Situation

Deploying to customer-controlled infrastructure

Providing professional services while the customer owns and controls the infrastructure and account.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Root. Delivering client work using the Work, billing the client for services. 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

Does this count as Production Use?

Yes. Providing professional services while the customer owns and controls the infrastructure and account. 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

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.

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