If the Debian project distributes the work and specifies license terms to the receiver, it doesn't matter who *wrote* those terms; it is the Debian project imposing the restrictions, by dint of distributing the software under those terms.
If Debian distribute a software; Debian may not impose any conditions whatsoever on a software he doesn't own the copyright. It is for this reason that Debian cannot sue somebody for violating the license of a software it distribute: because the license terms are imposed by the copyright holder, not by Debian. Debian can only give a copy (and usually is obliged to do so) of the original license term; specified by the original author. From the Debian point of view this is only for information: here is a software and here is the license terms that the original authors impose to you. (Some very permissive license might allow a distributor to sublicense the software; but it is certainly not the case of the GPL).
The GPL make the fact even more clear; the term of the license are imposed by the original author, not by Debian:
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