At 17:06 19/01/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Some readers may be interested in the following official position statement
>from the ICDD (owners and publishers of the Powder Diffraction File) about
>the question raised by L. Keller about `private' distribution of selected
>data from a copyrighted database.
This brings up an interesting question. What part of the ICDD database is
copyrighted? Surely the diffraction data itself is in the public domain.
Most of the data have references to publications in the scientific literature.
Mark