If you release to Public Domain, can you GPL later

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Code Archives Agreement

As of the 9th May 2004, Blitz Research have introduced a strict policy of only accepting Public Domain code into the code archives. By clicking the button below, you are declaring that the code you are about to submit is Public Domain code with no restrictions upon its useage.

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This obviously has no effect if the GPL code was not authored by the one who submitted it.

What seems to have happened is that the posted software was on the internet and GPL'd which was then converted to Blitz. If such is the case then it still cannot be posted on the code archives because you have to be the original author to release to the public domain.


As you see in the quote above, the public domain policy has also been there since 2004. Are you perhaps referring to an older piece of code? In that case even if it was submitted by the author, GPL would apply.