In the end you're only pressured as much as you allow yourself to be pressured.
"I don't feel like it, if it's important to you then feel free to fork".
That's really all that's needed. "I don't feel like it" is all the justification you need.
Some guy just made a compression tool, because some people like doing that kind of thing, or because it was useful for him. He didn't ask to be made "critical infrastructure" or to be responsible for the security of sshd or to have some business depend on it, or anything like that. No one even asked him.
"I don't feel like it, if it's important to you then feel free to fork".
That's really all that's needed. "I don't feel like it" is all the justification you need.
Some guy just made a compression tool, because some people like doing that kind of thing, or because it was useful for him. He didn't ask to be made "critical infrastructure" or to be responsible for the security of sshd or to have some business depend on it, or anything like that. No one even asked him.