Don’t see Paramiko in the list of GNU packages.
https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/blob/main/LICENSE
IANAL, and I didn't ask for an explanation, but I suspect the problem was that I was making a library, which, from my uneducated reading, would qualify as a derived work.
I know our company is especially strict since, from my understanding, significant enough money has already been spent on legal fees.