Continuity

data-peek is built by a single maintainer. Instead of pretending otherwise, the project makes two concrete commitments, both versioned in the repository as SUSTAINABILITY.md.

The kill-switch-free guarantee

Licence activation is designed to fail open for versions you already have:

• Activated licences revalidate roughly every 7 days.
• If the licence server is unreachable, your licence stays fully valid for a 30-day grace window.
• After that, the licence falls back to perpetual mode: the version you activated keeps working with all commercial features, forever, fully offline.

If the licence server disappeared tomorrow, every activated installation would keep working on its current version indefinitely. This describes how the shipped code behaves today — not a promise about future behaviour.

The dormancy pledge

If the repository has no maintainer activity — no commits, no releases, no issue triage — for 12 consecutive months, the commercial-licence requirement is waived for all versions released up to that point.

Everything else that de-risks adoption

• MIT source. Build it yourself, patch it, fork it — today, not just in a doomsday scenario.
• CI-built releases. Binaries come from GitHub Actions, not a laptop, so a fork can reproduce them.
• Local-first. No service dependency in day-to-day use: queries go from your machine to your database.