With static linking you take someone elses code and put it into your own artifact and then distribute that to users. This means that you need a license to distr

With static linking you take someone elses code and put it into your own artifact and then distribute that to users. This means that you need a license to distribute their code. Not just that, because of the way static linking works, you need a license to distribute modified version of the code. With dynamic linking you never distribute someone else's code so you don't need a license to distribute it.