OpenRoots

ORM-2.2

A government body naming the project publicly, under ORM 2.2

Public sector at any level, national through municipal. Saying your product is built on or compatible with the Work. This resolves to the Root tier.

Tier

Root

Owed

Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.

Sections in play

1.7, 11.1, 11.2, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1

Who and what

The situation being resolved.

Actor

A government body

Public sector at any level, national through municipal.

any

Situation

Naming the project publicly

Saying your product is built on or compatible with the Work.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Root. Public sector at any level, national through municipal. 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

clear

Is anything owed?

Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.

Sections 2.1

clear

May you say what you built on?

Yes, for truthful attribution under Section 8.1. What you may not do is imply endorsement or use the marks as your own branding.

Sections 11.1, 11.2, 8.1

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.