Linking to a link is an “exact match”, just like linking to a non-referent, so both overloads are equally good.
In Standardese, this is 13.3.3.1.4 ("Binding Link", [over.ics.ref]):
When a parameter of a reference type is directly associated (8.5.3) with an argument expression, the implicit conversion sequence is an identity transformation [...]
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