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.
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.
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.