GlassFish Community Acceptance Testing Awards Program
OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY

1. DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST: The FishCAT Awards Program ("Contest") is designed to encourage GlassFish community to participate in GlassFish V3 Beta testing. Prizes will be awarded to top 3 participants who file the most valid bugs.

2. ELIGIBILITY:This Contest is open only to individuals who lawfully reside in the following countries and who have reached the legal age of majority: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the Netherlands, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Venezuela, and the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Void in Puerto Rico, Quebec and where prohibited by law. Persons in any of the following categories are not eligible to participate or win the prize(s) offered: (a) Agents of Sun Microsystems, their parent companies, affiliates and subsidiaries, participating advertising and promotion agencies, application development partner companies, and prize suppliers; (b) immediate family members (defined as parents, children, siblings and spouse, regardless of where they reside) and/or those living in the same household as any person in (a) above; and (c) employees of any government entity. You must also have access to the Internet and a valid email address in order to enter or win.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ENTRANTS: ALL DEADLINES SET FORTH IN THESE OFFICIAL RULES ARE STATED IN UNITED STATES PACIFIC STANDARD TIME. ENTRANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE CORRESPONDING TIME ZONE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS.

3. HOW TO ENTER:

  • To enter, you must be a member of the GlassFish Quality Community. If you are not a member of the GlassFish Quality Community, go to to join.
  • To enter, you must apply for the FishCAT program by submit the FishCAT application form to quality@glassfish.java.net [Mailto]. All Entries must be received by 11:59 P.M. (PST) on August 4, 2008

4. THE SUBMISSION:
In addition to the requirements set forth above, each Entry must comply with the following Submission Guidelines:

A. The Entry may not contain any content or material that is lewd, obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic, disparaging, defamatory, libelous, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate or objectionable, as determined by the Judges and/or Sponsor in their sole and absolute discretion.

B. The Entry must be the Entrant's original work, created solely by the Entrant, and must not infringe the copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other intellectual rights of any person or entity.

C. All Entries, including without limitation, code, documentation and any elements of Entry must be available under at least one OSI approved open source license, available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses.

D. The Entry must not contain any personally identifiable information of any person other than the Entrant. Should the Entrant include personally identifiable information about him/herself in his/her Entry, Entrant acknowledges and agrees that such information will be disclosed publicly and Entrant is solely responsible for any consequences thereof.

E. The Entry must not contain any commercial content or logos of any entity other than Sponsor and Sun Microsystems, Inc. which may be incorporated only under the terms of any applicable licenses.
The Judges and/or Sponsor reserve the right to disqualify at any time, any Entry that they determine, in their sole and absolute discretion does not meet the requirements of the Official Rules, the Sun Contributor Agreement (if applicable), the applicable OSI license or these Submission Guidelines.

5.JUDGING: All Entries will be judged by a panel based on the following FishCAT points earned:

Activity type CAT points
RFE 5
Bug 5
Review entire doc 10

In the event of a tie, the person among the tied Entries with the highest score in Usefulness will be declared the winner. If ties still remain the tied entries will be re-judged on the same criteria. The Judges/Sponsor reserve the right to terminate the Contest and not to award any Prizes, if in their sole and absolute discretion they do not receive a sufficient number of eligible or qualified entries for the Contest. Winners will be notified by email, telephone or postal mail, within Sponsor's discretion. Decisions of Judges are final and binding.

6.PRIZES AND APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUE:
A total number of 3 iPod touch (8GB) may be awarded to the Entries selected by the Judges, approximate retail value of $300 each. One individual may not be awarded more than one (1) iPod touch. If an inadequate number of qualified winning Entries are received, Sponsor reserves the right to (a) not award the prize to any Entry; or (b) award fewer than the number of prizes stated above.
All other expenses not specified herein are the responsibility of the winner. ALL TAXES, CUSTOMS AND ANY APPLICABLE WITHOLDING AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WINNER.

7.CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for an item of equal or greater value in the event all or part of a prize becomes unavailable. Prizes are awarded without warranty of any kind from Sponsor, express or implied, without limitation, except where this would be contrary to federal, state, provincial, or local laws or regulations. All federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations apply. Submission of entry into this Contest deems that entrants agree to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules and by the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding on all matters pertaining to this Contest. Return of any prize/prize notification may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. Any potential winner who cannot be contacted within 15 days of attempted first notification will forfeit his/her prize. Potential prize winner(s) may be required to sign and return an Affidavit or Declaration of Eligibility/Liability & Publicity Release within 30 days following the date of first attempted notification. Failure to comply within this time period may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. The intellectual and industrial property rights to the contest submission, if any, will remain with the participants, except that these terms do not supersede any other assignment or grant of rights according to any other separate agreements between participants and other parties. As a condition of entry, participants agree that Sun shall have the right to use, copy, modify and make available the application or code in connection with the operation, conduct, administration, and advertising and promotion of the Contest via communication to the public, including, but not limited to the right to make screenshots, animations and video clips available to the public for promotional and publicity purposes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, ownership of and all intellectual and industrial property rights in and to the application and code shall remain with the participant. Acceptance of the prize constitutes permission for, and winners consent to, Sponsor and its agencies to use a winner's name and/or likeness and entry for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law. To the extent permitted by law, entrants, agree to hold Sponsor, its parent, subsidiaries, agents, directors, officers, employees, representatives and assigns harmless from any injury or damage caused or claimed to be caused by participation in the Contest and/or use or acceptance of any prize won, except to the extent that any death or personal injury is caused by the negligence of the Sponsor. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Contest or in the announcement of the prize. A participant may be prohibited from participating in this Contest if, in the Sponsor's sole discretion, it reasonably believes that the participant has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of this Contest by cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices or annoys, abuses, threatens or harasses any other participants, the Sponsor or associated agencies. In the event a winner/potential winner's employer has a policy, which prohibits the awarding of a prize to an employee, the prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected.

8.NO RECOURSE TO JUDICIAL OR OTHER PROCEDURES: To the extent permitted by law, the rights to litigate, to seek injunctive relief or to make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes or claims resulting from or in connection with this contest are hereby excluded, and any participant expressly waives any and all such rights.
Participants agree that these Official Rules are governed by the laws of California, USA.

9.DATA PRIVACY: Participants agree that personal data, especially name and address, may be processed, stored and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the contest and any other purposes outlined in these Official Rules. The data may also be used by the Sponsor in order to check participants' identity, their postal address and telephone number, or to otherwise verify their eligibility to participate in the Contest and to receive any prize. Participants have a right to access, review, rectify or cancel any personal data held by the Sponsor by writing to Sponsor (Attention: privacy@sun.com) at the address listed below. If participant's data is not provided or is canceled participants' Entries will be ineligible.

10.WARRANTY AND INDEMNITY: Entrants certify that their entry is original and that they are the sole and exclusive owner and right holder of the submitted entry and that they have the right to submit the Entry in the Contest. Each participant agrees not to submit any Entry that (1) infringes any 3rd party proprietary, intellectual property, industrial property, personal rights or other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or confidentiality obligation; or (2) otherwise violates applicable law in any countries in the world. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each participant indemnifies and agrees to keep indemnified the Sponsor its parent, subsidiaries, agents, directors, officers, employees, representatives and assigns harmless at all times from and against any liability, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and expenses resulting from any act, default or omission of the participant and/or a breach of any warranty set forth herein. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each participant indemnifies and agrees to keep indemnified the Sponsor, its parent, subsidiaries, agents, directors, officers, employees, representatives and assigns harmless at all times from and against any liability, actions, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and expenses for or in respect of which the Sponsor will or may become liable by reason of or related or incidental to any act, default or omission by a participant under these Official Rules including without limitation resulting from or in relation to any breach, non-observance, act or omission whether negligent or otherwise, pursuant to these official rules by a participant.

11.ELIMINATION: Any false information provided within the context of the Contest by any participant concerning identity, postal address, telephone number, ownership of right or non-compliance with these rules or the like may result in the immediate elimination of the participant from the Contest. Sponsor further reserves the right to disqualify any Entry that it believes in its sole and unfettered discretion infringes upon or violates the rights of any third party or otherwise does not comply with these official rules.

12.INTERNET: Sponsor is not responsible for electronic transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission. Sponsor is not responsible for theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions or limitations of any kind. Sponsor is not responsible for inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site or any combination thereof, except to the extent that any death or personal injury is caused by the negligence of the Sponsor. If for any reason the Internet portion of the program is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to select winners from eligible entries received as of the termination date. Sponsor further reserves the right to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process. Caution: Any attempt by a contestant to deliberately damage any Web site or undermine the legitimate operation of the game is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such contestant to the fullest extent of the law.

13. If any provision(s) of these Official Rules are held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions hereof will remain in full force and effect.

14. WINNER'S LIST: For Winner's name, log onto https://glassfish.java.net/quality on or about the following time October 30, available for a period of up to 60 days.

15. SPONSOR: The Sponsor of this Contest is the GlassFish Quality Community, at https://glassfish.java.net/quality. Sun Microsystems, Inc., is funding all of the prize awards, however, Sun Microsystems shall have no liability or responsibility in connection with the Contest other than to fund the prize awards specified herein.