License check failure prevents alarms from working

I've been using XiiaLive as my alarm clock, which is usually quite reliable. Today, though, it didn't work, and I found out that XiiaLive was complaining that the license check failed.

I understand that Google Play license checks may rarely malfunction, but would it be possible to at least allow basic alarm functionality to work even if it does? Perhaps just fall back to the default alarm ringtone in that case, just as it would if stream playback fails. Having the alarm fail to work due to a licensing check is quite frustrating, and I don't want to have to set up a back-up alarm in another app and deal with disabling it every time just to work around this potential failure mode.

I've been using XiiaLive for over a year now, and I've only had it fail to wake me up twice; the other time there was no audio output, but that may have been a device snafu (a reboot cleared it up).