[Capt.ArD]

they aren't allowing it because until recently maya was a competing program. It's the Autodesk award, not the Alias award. I gues they just want to push their own product. But, maybe next year, cuz alias was just bought by Autodesk.
I said a while ago, they can't enforce it, but that doesn't mean you should do it.

EDIT: DAGGIT! you beat me to it while i was typing!