Interestingly, the Start Date of the broken broken license was 12 months and 2 weeks ago and this was the first update since that 12 month mark, I wonder if there is some broken logic somewhere? Or maybe the license format had changed.
I didn’t test it but I worry about license failures in production as a number of security features are licensed-only, does it fail safe or fail unsafe (open all access)?
We have activation logic that stores activation state in the database once the online key has activated. It will attempt to reactivate once the subscription period has expired. I wonder if our logic is invalid there.
Offline licenses are just local and don’t require any activation so if you are going to install a license once a year anyways, I would suggest using that.
All that said, it fails unsafe. I’ve opened an issue for this because, I agree, it shouldn’t work this way.