Static linking is permissible with LGPL but not GPL. The point about linking is that the viral part of the GPL kicks in with regards to the distribution of exe

Static linking is permissible with LGPL but not GPL. The point about linking is that the viral part of the GPL kicks in with regards to the distribution of executables ("the licensee must provide the recipients with a complete source code in one of the following methods, when distributing the program in object code"). If code is dynamically discovered at runtime, then this viral aspect does not apply. This issue is old, regarded by Eben Moglen as a loophole, and I expected GPL3 to address it. I think it has not.