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I would add:
Cost for commercial, free for personal may not always be open source. Redis for example.
How would this look like? Are you suggesting a different license? Or is it more something like paid binaries but the code stays open?
Anti Commercial-AI license
Both of those aren't opensource (at least I can't find their repos on their webpages), but I see the model your proposing. Maybe just providing an option to pay at all, and not make it a donation, could work. The only problem I see is a competitor swooping in with a bigger team (or a team in the first place), and building upon the existing project to kill it in order to end up selling its own product. With non-restrictive opensource licenses like MIT and Apache, I assume it would be trivial. GPLv3 would make that a little harder.
Anti Commercial-AI license
Also paid integrations into your existing environment.
Proxmox does this.
Syncthing has vendor support - they use ST in integrations.
Both seem like effective models