ORM-2.2
An AI model provider checking licence continuity, under ORM 2.2
Trains, fine-tunes, or serves machine learning models commercially. You need to know whether a release ever changes licence by time alone. This resolves to the Canopy tier.
Tier
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, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Who and what
The situation being resolved.
Actor
An AI model provider
Trains, fine-tunes, or serves machine learning models commercially.
over 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?
Canopy. Trains, fine-tunes, or serves machine learning models commercially. 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
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
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.
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.