OpenRoots

ORM-2.2

A cloud or hosting provider deploying to customer-controlled infrastructure, under ORM 2.2

Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business. Providing professional services while the customer owns and controls the infrastructure and account. This resolves to the Canopy tier.

Tier

Canopy

Owed

0.5% of revenue attributable to products or services that depend on the Work, capped at $250,000 per year, plus a quarterly Canopy Report.

Sections in play

1.8, 1.9, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A cloud or hosting provider

Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business.

over 2M USD

Situation

Deploying to customer-controlled infrastructure

Providing professional services while the customer owns and controls the infrastructure and account.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Canopy. Offers managed services to third parties as its primary business. 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

clear

Is anything owed?

0.5% of revenue attributable to products or services that depend on the Work, capped at $250,000 per year, plus a quarterly Canopy Report.

Sections 5.1, 5.2

clear

Does this count as Production Use?

Yes. Providing professional services while the customer owns and controls the infrastructure and account. 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

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.

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