ORL-2.2
A side business the licensor disappears, under ORL 2.2
A sole trader or small partnership earning under six figures from the work. The maintainer stops publishing, is acquired, or becomes insolvent. This resolves to the Root tier.
Tier
Owed
Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.
Sections in play
1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 7.2
Who and what
The situation being resolved.
Actor
A side business
A sole trader or small partnership earning under six figures from the work.
under 100k USD
Situation
The Licensor disappears
The maintainer stops publishing, is acquired, or becomes insolvent.
Rulings
3 questions resolved against the text.
Which tier applies?
Root. A sole trader or small partnership earning under six figures from the work. 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 if the Licensor is gone?
Nothing changes by time alone. Your rights remain the rights in the version you received, and no fallback licence appears because the Licensor disappeared. The public canonical text and digest are what you rely on.
Sections 7.2
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.