GPL: why can't a lawyer understand it?

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Nearly a year after the Free Software Foundation released an updated version of the General Public License - the GPLv3 - there appears to be a great deal of confusion about what the license actually means, if one goes by two recent publications.

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A good article. But one thing seems to be wrong. I don't have a link, but I have read an article where Eben Moglen (coauthor of GPLv3) makes clear, that there is no legal difference between static linking or dynamic linking in the GPL. There is a difference in the LGPL, but not in the GPL.