Or perhaps I cannot see in to the future and so I would rather make a statement about probability than assume I know what is going to happen in the future?
... Except the question is specifically about whether or not you are going to sell this at some point in the future.
Something that you, specifically, will intentionally do or not do when the time comes.
There is no probability involved here. It's a choice that you will make one way or the other.
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Clearly you intend to make money off this if the opportunity presents itself.
It is not a sure guarantee that this music will NOT be sold
Which is what I said.
What it basically comes down to is, you're trying to get someone to make noncommercial content for you, using noncommercial content to make it, which they are certainly going to do for a product you're pretending will just be free promotional material.
Then, you might decide to make money off it later.
That's both disingenuous and illegal.
If you get noncommercial content to use, you can't decide to make money off it at any point in time in the future. Or to put it a different way, there must be a probability of 0 that you will ever make money off it
That is why you were specifically asked that.
See, I am willing to help you. The problem is that I do need to know if this will be monetized or not. It seems like a small issue but it's actually rather big of one. It limits resources that are available to me, for example (especially type). Additionally, I am more hesitant about tossing over intellectual property when I do a commission.
There's no plan for this to be sold, it's more just for facebook and Myspace and to go on my CD Cover for when my University asks for a portfolio of what I've done.
You're being pretty deceitful here, since if he had made it for you under the assumption it wouldn't be sold, you would not be allowed (legally or ethically) to make money off of it.
Your answer should have been:
It is not a sure guarantee that this music will NOT be sold
That's all he wanted to know. I'm pretty sure after you blatantly lied to him he's not going to make anything for you though.