OpenRoots

ORL-2.2

A cloud or hosting provider redistributing it without charge, under ORL 2.2

Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business. Passing the Work along without monetizing it or presenting it as a substitute offering. 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

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

Redistributing it without charge

Passing the Work along without monetizing it or presenting it as a substitute offering.

Rulings

2 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

Same actor

Other situations for this party.

Evaluating it internallyOperating it internallyShipping it in productionEmbedding it in a product you sellOffering it as a hosted serviceForking and modifying itReselling 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.