OpenRoots

ORM-2.2

A university or school embedding it in a product you sell, under ORM 2.2

Educational institution, teaching or research use. The Work is a component of something larger you charge for. This resolves to the Root tier.

Tier

Root

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 university or school

Educational institution, teaching or research use.

any

Situation

Embedding it in a product you sell

The Work is a component of something larger you charge for.

Rulings

3 questions resolved against the text.

clear

Which tier applies?

Root. Educational institution, teaching or research use. 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

Does this count as Production Use?

Yes. The Work is a component of something larger you charge for. 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.