ORM-2.2
A consultancy or agency reselling it, under ORM 2.2
Delivering client work using the Work, billing the client for services. Charging for the Work itself or a lightly modified substitute. This resolves to the Root tier.
Tier
Owed
Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.
Sections in play
1.13, 1.7, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
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
Reselling it
Charging for the Work itself or a lightly modified substitute.
Rulings
4 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 this count as Production Use?
Yes. Charging for the Work itself or a lightly modified substitute. Section 1.9 covers internal operation at operating scope and systems made available externally to customers or the public. Development, testing, evaluation, research, and personal non-revenue use remain outside it.
Sections 1.9
Is this a Competing Offering?
Yes if the value derives entirely or substantially from the Work itself. Section 4 applies to every Licensee, including Root. A larger independent product remains allowed, but selling, porting, repackaging, hosting, or redistributing the Work as the product requires a separate written agreement.
Sections 1.13, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
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.