ORM-2.2
A consultancy or agency checking licence continuity, under ORM 2.2
Delivering client work using the Work, billing the client for services. You need to know whether a release ever changes licence by time alone. This resolves to the Root tier.
Tier
Owed
Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.
Sections in play
1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
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
Checking licence continuity
You need to know whether a release ever changes licence by time alone.
Rulings
3 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
Does the licence change by time alone?
No. Section 7 states that current releases do not convert automatically to Apache, MIT, Creative Commons, or any other fallback licence. A later version can apply to future releases only according to Section 16.
Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
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.
Section 8.3 forbids imposing a user ceiling, a regional exclusion, or an output-training restriction downstream where this licence imposes none. That prohibition is the point of the instrument.
Same actor
Other situations for this party.
Non-normative. Where this and the licence text disagree, the licence text applies.