ORL-2.2
A consultancy or agency evaluating it internally, under ORL 2.2
Delivering client work using the Work, billing the client for services. Development, testing, evaluation, or research inside your organisation. This resolves to the Root tier.
Tier
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 consultancy or agency
Delivering client work using the Work, billing the client for services.
under 2M USD
Situation
Evaluating it internally
Development, testing, evaluation, or research inside your organisation.
Rulings
2 questions resolved against the text.
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
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.
Same actor
Other situations for this party.
Non-normative. Where this and the licence text disagree, the licence text applies.