Thanks,
I am distributing my source code via GitHub and GPL. I think that so long as I do that, it doesn't matter whether or not I use static linking in so far as licensing is concerned. My code is open-source, at least that's my intent.

I did find that I was able to easily modify the makefile emitted by Qt Creator to force static linking of most, but not all of the Linux system dependencies. Apparently, some of the OS libraries were available only as shared libraries and in some cases Qt libraries called shared Linux OS libraries so that I was not able to use all the available static libraries offered by Linux.

Too bad that it doesn't appear that one can roll up a desktop app all into one executable with no shared library calls. I'm thinking this would be nice since then, it could be distributed to any Linux machine without consideration of the distribution or kernel version?

Thanks,
Phil