1. Entries must be posted online, reach lxf.competitions@futurenet.co.uk or Linux Format, Future Publishing, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW no later than 2nd April 2007. By submitting their entry entrants will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these rules.
2. The winner will be announced in LXF96 and the winner will be notified personally as soon as practicable either before or after this.
3. The competition is open to all readers, except employees of Future plc or Novell inc, any of their wholly owned subsidiaries or any marketing services agency, handling house or other company involved directly with the administration of this competition, or any member of their households.
4. There is no limt to the number of entries each household may submit. Responsibility cannot be accepted for entries lost, damaged or delayed in transit to the address at Rule 1. Proof of posting will not be accepted as proof of receipt. Correspondence will be entered into only at the absolute discretion of Future Publishing Limited.
5. Entries will be published online for voting at www.linuxformat.co.uk/makeitwithmono on 2nd April 2007.
6. Entries that would require proprietary software to be developed or infringe on patented technology will be disqualified under the terms of the GPL. Pornographic or offensive entries will also be disqualified.
7. The winning entry will be the one that receives most votes at www.linuxformat.co.uk/makeitwithmono by 2nd May 2007.
8. The prize will be for the winning idea to be made into a working application using the Mono development framework. Future Publishing Limited may in its absolute discretion substitute cash value for the prize.
9. The winning application will be published under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
10. There are 30 Mono T-shirts available as prizes for runners-up. Future Publishing Limited may in its absolute discretion substitute cash value for the prize.
11. Entrants accept that if they win, Future Publishing Limited will have the right, without additional payment or permission, to use their name, age, town of residence and likeness for the purposes of announcing the winner of this competition and for related promotional purposes.
12. All entries will become the property of Future Publishing Limited on its receipt of them and will not be returned. Entrants hereby provide Future Publishing Limited with an irrevocable non-exclusive worldwide licence to use the competition entry in any manner and hereby waive all moral rights in the entry.
13. The name of the winner and the winning entry will be sent to anyone who writes within three months after the closing date, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, to the postal address in Rule 1 above, requesting details of the winning entry.
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All entries must be received by the deadline for that Competition and late or incomplete entries may, in the absolute discretion of the Company, be disqualified. Proof of posting shall not be deemed proof of delivery. No responsibility can be accepted for entries which are lost, delayed, misdirected or corrupted during delivery to or from the Company due to any computer malfunction, virus, bug, delay or failure of the postal service or other reason whatsoever.
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The Company reserves the right to implement age requirements or other eligibility criteria in its absolute discretion. Unless otherwise stated, Competitions are not open to: (a) persons who are not resident in the United Kingdom; (b) the employees, agents or subcontractors of the Company; (c) any Competition sponsor or its employees, agents or subcontractors; (d) the immediate families of such employees or sponsors.
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