Then it's not a distinction between dynamic linking and static linking. It's a distinction of "only link against things you yourself build and ship". It's not

Then it's not a distinction between dynamic linking and static linking. It's a distinction of "only link against things you yourself build and ship". It's nothing to do with closed or open source. I don't want to build a very big world, and ship a huge amount of binary code that can be found in distributions, to make a 2038-safe app.