OpenRoots

ORM-2.2

An enterprise forking and modifying it, under ORM 2.2

Large organisation with procurement, legal review, and an SBOM process. Changing the Work and distributing your version. This resolves to the Canopy tier.

Tier

Canopy

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, 8.1, 8.2

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

An enterprise

Large organisation with procurement, legal review, and an SBOM process.

over 50M USD

Situation

Forking and modifying it

Changing the Work and distributing your version.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Canopy. Large organisation with procurement, legal review, and an SBOM process. 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?

A quarterly Canopy Report. Section 5.1 imposes a royalty only when the Canopy Licensee makes Production Use.

Sections 5.1, 5.2

clear

What travels with a fork?

Identify the base model under Section 8.1 and publish the nature of the modification and data categories used under Section 8.2.

Sections 8.1, 8.2

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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