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I chose FSL-MIT for my latest project that I plan to run as a service: https://fsl.software/
It's not technically OSS, but it is exactly what I want from a license. Users can do anything they want except make money off it themselves, but 2 years after release the software converts to MIT so you can make money off an old version of the software if you wanted. Basically I as the dev/maintainer get a 2 year lead on selling it as SaaS, and if you want to make money off of the latest versions we need to negotiate a different license agreement.
I think it's a good balance between being open source but also ensuring that development actually has a viable funding route.