Oh wow! Okay. That definitely covers #1.

That leads to a tangential, more general followup. The dev agreement provides  
a duty to defend:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200530120950/https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE4o4bH
> Duty to defend.  You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless each
> Covered Party, as applicable, from and against (including by paying
> any associated costs, losses, damages or expenses and attorneys'
> fees) any and all third party claims

All of the trusted FOSS licenses I'm aware of include language removing 
liability from the author. For example, here's a snippet from ISC:

https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC

> IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY ...
> DAMAGES... IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT...
> ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH... THIS SOFTWARE

To me, that seems like a direct contradiction. Is there any precedence for 
precedence should a conflict arise? The safe route is clearly to avoid any 
agreements with indemnification, but I am curious if it's swung one way or the 
other in court.





Also, because I wrapped links in parens without spaces in my original post, 
some of the longer ones seem to be visually truncated and append the tailing 
paren on click. I'm very sorry about that. If you click a link and archive says 
it DNE, remove the tailing paren from the URL.
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