Removing ALL references to the original author and making not a single note about the original repository (at least not before our moderator found the original) IS plagiarism. Intentionally or not, does not matter.
I just posted examples and what GitHub or your IDE does automatically is irrelevant. It is still your responsibility to not violate license agreements. It's as simply as that.
Ok, got it. But still....
You removed ALL copyright notices.
https://github.com/bencagri/artisan-deployer/blob/master/LICENSE#L3
https://github.com/EasyCorp/easy-deploy-bundle/blob/master/src/Command/DeployCommand.php#L6
https://github.com/EasyCorp/easy-deploy-bundle/blob/master/src/Command/RollbackCommand.php#L6
https://github.com/EasyCorp/easy-deploy-bundle/blob/master/composer.json#L8
https://github.com/bencagri/artisan-deployer/blob/master/composer.json#L8
and so on and so forth...
Removing ALL references to the original author and making not a single note about the original repository (at least not before our moderator found the original) IS plagiarism. Intentionally or not, does not matter.
.......
I just posted examples and what GitHub or your IDE does automatically is irrelevant. It is still your responsibility to not violate license agreements. It's as simply as that.