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scott_karana:
No, this isn't an XCom related concern.
One of the songs in the soundtrack, PsymongR4.ogg, seems to me to directly use the melody of  Chrono Trigger's "At the Bottom of Night", by Yasunori Mitsuda, which I identified because I happen to be a fan of said song. I have ready a detailed comparison of the two pieces in question, but I need somewhere to host the 1.33MB of OGG Vorbis files that accompany it.
I am concerned that the composer of PsymongR4.ogg (AKA Recycled4.ogg), Simon Greene, may have inadvertenly licensed under the GPL material that isn't his to license. Thus to me the rest of his contributed Recycled music is suspect (though all excellent I must say! :)).

Is this all something to be concerned about, or am I just a worry-wart? :?

BTAxis:
Well, if the two songs are too similar, we may have to exclude that track. As for the rest of the tracks, do you have any indication that they may be using melodies from existing music? If not, I see no reason to remove them.

scott_karana:
I've seen no indication the other tracks are using existing music. I'll get in contact with Simon Greene, unless anyone here knows him, just to ask if he does recall using existing music, though.

scott_karana:
Alright, here are the files.

Bottom of the Night's start.
PsymongR4's start.
The melody is even in the same key, and roughly the same tempo! There is indeed no bassline from the original, though.

Bottom of the Night's bridge.
Psymong's bridge.
I don't have the skill to strip away the accompanying instruments from Bottom, nor have I edited it into the form it is in Psymong, but the similarity is noticeable here, if not as striking as in the melody proper.

Zenerka:
Scott,
as far as I know, if one uses the samples of other music, he needs to carefuly consider licensing.
BUT!
If one creates the music on his own (without using any other samples), everything is OK even if creates his samples which reproduces any well-known melody. Any melody does not have any license, only author copyrights, if any.
Am I right here or I am wrong? Not sure.

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