ORL-2.2
An individual developer forking and modifying it, under ORL 2.2
One person, no company, releasing or consuming work in their own name. Changing the Work and distributing your version. This resolves to the Root tier.
Tier
Owed
Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.
Sections in play
1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 8.3
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
Forking and modifying it
Changing the Work and distributing your version.
Rulings
3 questions resolved against the text.
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
Is anything owed?
Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.
Sections 2.1
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
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.