Which opensource license to use to retain commercial rights for myself.

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I am starting an opensource project. I want to allow the following: Free for noncommercial use, bins and source mods, like with the GPL, but I would like to retain commercial rights for myself, and provide another license for commercial use for customers who prefer that option.

The number of licensing options seem a bit overwhelming. So my question is:

Which opensource license should I use?
Which commercial license should I use, if there are any standard ones
available? Or should I come up with
my own one here?

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