[indrora]

Copyleft and the shift to static executables are incompatible.

The vast majority of the rust (and Go) ecosystems is non-copyleft because you cannot satisfy the GPL in any meaningful way and satisfy your corporate legal department’s IP lawyers.

[pjmlp]

Hence why advocates from going back into the days of static linking should consider the how and whys we moved from them, and better pick their toolchains.