OpenRoots

ORL-2.2

A cloud or hosting provider forking and modifying it, under ORL 2.2

Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business. Changing the Work and distributing your version. 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, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.3

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A cloud or hosting provider

Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business.

over 2M USD

Situation

Forking and modifying it

Changing the Work and distributing your version.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Canopy. Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business. 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

What travels with a fork?

Retain the notice, licence reference, governing version, and attribution records under Section 8.1. Section 8.3 also requires a discoverable identification of altered portions.

Sections 8.1, 8.3

Same actor

Other situations for this party.