OpenRoots

ORM-2.2

A reseller or systems integrator forking and modifying it, under ORM 2.2

Packages and resells software built by others. 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

A reseller or systems integrator

Packages and resells software built by others.

varies

Situation

Forking and modifying it

Changing the Work and distributing your version.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Canopy. Packages and resells software built by others. 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 1.7 excludes an entity acting as a reseller or intermediary for a Legal Entity above the threshold from the Root tier, even where its own revenue is small.

  • 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.