ORM-2.2
A side business deploying to customer-controlled infrastructure, under ORM 2.2
A sole trader or small partnership earning under six figures from the work. Providing professional services while the customer owns and controls the infrastructure and account. This resolves to the Root tier.
Tier
Owed
Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.
Sections in play
1.7, 1.9, 2.1, 2.2
Who and what
The situation being resolved.
Actor
A side business
A sole trader or small partnership earning under six figures from the work.
under 100k 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.
Which tier applies?
Root. A sole trader or small partnership earning under six figures from the work. 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
Is anything owed?
Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.
Sections 2.1
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.
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.
Non-normative. Where this and the licence text disagree, the licence text applies.