I hear what you are saying about "acknowledge my small, inept addition " - many years ago I ran into a problem with mod_LDAP for Apache and dug into the C code (after not having touched the language for more than a dozen years and with Kernighan & Ritchie on my desk the entire time) and sent the author a fix that must have totalled about a dozen lines only to discover when the update hit the Apache site I was now "co-author" and thanked for "cleaning up some code and adding the Open LDAP functions".

I've never forgotten that largesse and when I ran a small open source project was always careful to give praise and acknowledgements to anyone that contributed, no matter how small.