Sun Users Group, COPS, etc.

[Dan Farmer]

  Hello -- I was recently approached by the Sun User's Group (SUG) -- they
wanted to include COPS (a security tool I assembled/wrote) on a CD-rom
that they were planning on creating.  Now, I'm all for user's groups
and stuff, and I want to see my stuff go out to as many people as
possible, but also for as little as possible (preferably free.)  I
asked them, and they said that they were going to sell this CD for $250.
I have no idea if this is standard for these kinds of things, but that
seems *very* high (they won't even give me a complementary copy -- not 
that I have a CD player anyway, but it's the principle :-)).  Could 
anyone tell me what is the general consensus of SUG?  Are they a "good"
organization?  Are they for profit, do they mostly just try to help people,
or what?  Anyone got any suggestions on what I should do?  (I know the
net is full of people who try to do this all the time anyway, so I'm sure
that I'll get lots of response on this...)

  Heck, they could have probably just slapped my stuff on the CD and 
I'd have never said a word, since cops is free anyway, but since they 
asked me to sign a legal disclaimer, now I'm interested in this.

 Thanks --

 -- dan


p.s.  If you're interested in cops, you can get it via anon-ftp at
cert.sei.cmu.edu, ~ftp/pub/cops/1.02.  All for the price of an ftp connection.