Canonical's re-licensing of LXD
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In December 2023, Canonical re-licensed LXD and imposed a CLA for all future
contributions. The version of LXD included in Debian is from a snapshot of
the stable-5.0 branch just prior to that change.

Unless someone else steps up to handle the huge task of properly verifying
each and every source file's license for d/copyright, there will be no
further updates to the packaging of LXD in future releases of Debian. It is
strongly recommend that users migrate to Incus, which is included in Debian
beginning with the trixie release.

For further details, see bug #1058592.

lxd-agent static linking
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The lxd-agent binary is compiled as a statically-linked executable. This is done
because if it is available on the host system, LXD will automatically copy the
lxc-agent binary into new virtual machines that are created. Statically-linking
it will allow execution within any arbitrary Linux vm that a user may create.

I encountered this in my initial packaging of LXD for Debian, and the Gentoo
folks have also run into this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752480
