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> Also, LGPL is already problematic, because you cannot link statically with it.

Damn. I just wrote the whole top level comment to explain that you can link statically LGPL code and how to do it with details.

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That's just a workaround. Now I need to add *.o files to my deb packages. Or ship source code in deb packages? What is it? Gentoo?

You don't, you just need to provide a way to get them (you can even specify that requests must be sent by post and charge postage for the response on a CD). It's not a 'workaround', it's literally how the license is supposed to work.

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