Please first rething the rest of your text as you did base your claims in a way that misses the fact that the GPL makes a clear difference between "the work" and "the whole source". GPL licensing only applies to "the work".
I do not know if you are right or not but it is not what matter. Debian and other distributor may distribute a forked version for whatever reason even for a bad one. I do not believe you will succeed to make Debian change their opinion. So would it be so difficult for you to change the license in other to satisfy Debian (and other Linux distributor)? I think it is the only way you can hope they reconsider the inclusion of cdrtool.
Olive