If possible you should create a personal fork of the opennurbs on github, create a branch and commit your changes in that. Then create a pull request to the original repository.
See also Hacktoberfest: Contribute to open source projects! by @fraguada
Also last night I happened to be adding some Linux support too. See
for some further inspiration. Note that I worked with Clang on Linux Mint to do so.
Anyway great to see some effort here!