[viraptor]

It's common in application of certain size and compatibility expectations. Windows and Mac games will bundle their dependencies as much as possible as well. Same for large apps. Nobody wants to end to in a situation where their relatively expensive purchase doesn't work because of the version of local libs.

[ironmagma]

Does bundling dependencies imply static linking, though? Why can’t they just dynamically link to the bundled dependency?

[viraptor]

Not really, it can be bundled either as static or dynamic.