Open License Marking Criteria for Public Works

Public Notice by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (2012)

 

 Open license marking criteria are specified as follows to prevent confusion of using it, and to promote the use of public

​works with clear and uniform marking criteria by allowing citizens' free use of works (referred as "public work"

​hereinafter), that are created, acquired and managed by government institutions, local governments and public

​institutions according to the Article 2, Item 3 of   「Official Information Disclosure Act」   (referred as "public institution"

​hereinafter), without the need of individual use permission according to Article 22 of   「Public Work's Copyright

​Management Instruction」   (Public Notice by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism No.2010-41).

 

1. Name and Basic Marking Design

 The name of 'open license for public work' is set as "Gonggongnuri", and its English term is set as

“KOGL(Korea Open Government License)". Basic designs that symbolizes KOGL is as follows

 

2. Types and Mark Design for KOGL

 It is the basic liability for KOGL to indicate the copyright (source), and can impose obligations such as change

prohibition, commercial use prohibition, etc. KOGL's 4 types of symbol marks and scope of the license are

shown in the table.

 

Type and Symbol Mark	Scope of License
[Type 1: Source Indication]	The user can freely use the public work regardless of its commercial use without fee, and can change it to create secondary work.
[Type 2: Type 1 + Commercial Use Prohibition]	The user can freely use the public work without fee, and can change it to create secondary work, but it is not permitted to use for commercial purpose.
[Type 3: Type 1 + Change Prohibition]	The user can freely use the public work regardless of its commercial use without fee, but it is not permitted to change or modify the contents of public work.
[Type 4: Type 1 + Commercial Use Prohibition + Change Prohibition]	The user can freely use the public work without fee, but it is not permitted to use for commercial purpose, or to change or modify the contents of public work.

 

3. Location of KOGL Mark

 Public institutions shall place the KOGL symbol mark to the proper location such as close to title or at the end

of the corresponding public work so that user can recognize it. The size of the symbol mark may be different

according to the public works, and it shall be the size that normal users can recognize it.

 

4. Use Terms for KOGL

 A. Public institutions shall provide use terms such as source indication liability, use prohibited information,

        public institution's liability exemption, effect of use term violation, etc. with proper method

        (ex: hyperlink with symbol mark) when providing public works using KOGL.

 B. Refer to Attachment for Use Terms by KOGL Types.

 C. Public institutions may change the license terms of public works. However, users who already use prior to

       the change shall be allowed to use according to the license terms before change even after it is changed.

 

5. Relationship with other free licenses KOGL can be used selectively with other free licenses such as Creative

Commons License. 

 

- Attachment 1: Use Term for KOGL Type 1 -

 

Korean                    English                  English - Korean

          

According to above KOGL, user can use public works freely and without fee regardless of its commercial use,

and can change or modify to create secondary works when user complies with the terms provided as follows.

 

 

 - Attachment 2: Use Term for KOGL Type 2 -

 

Korean                         English                     English - Korean

           

According to above KOGL, user can use public works freely and without fee, and can change or modify to

create secondary work when user complies with the terms provided as follows except for commercial use.

 

 

- Attachment 3: Use Term for KOGL Type 3 - 

 

Korean                        English                        English - Korean

            

According to above KOGL, user can use public works freely and without fee regardless of its commercial use

when user complies with the terms provided as follows, while the contents of public works is not modified or

changed.

 

 

 - Attachment 4: Use Term for KOGL Type 4 -

 

 Korean                            English                             English - Korean

         

According to above KOGL, user can use public works freely and without fee when user complies

with the terms provided as follows. However, it is prohibited to use public works for commercial purpose,

or to create secondary works by changing or modifying it.

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1. Source Indication Liability

 A. Users who use public works shall indicate source or copyright as follows:

      “000(public institution's name)'s public work is used according to KOGL”

 B. The link shall be provided when online hyperlink for the source website is available.

 C. Marking shall not be used to misguide the third party that the user is sponsored by public institution or

      user has a special relationship with public institutions.

 

2. Use Prohibited Information

Following information is prohibited from use according to related laws even though they are included in the