On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 05:26:39AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > one might point to the debian installer as the package that > draws the others in, but the debian installer is not actually > required to have a functional, recognizable, and even 'orthodox' > debian system.
According to <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut>, d-i is "a collection of many small Debian packages", so the aggregate set of the licenses of those component packages would be what's wanted.