I'm repeating myself.
If you beat a dead horse, does it go any faster?
That does not sound like an elegoo’s GitHub branch but this Erutan409/Michael Keyser guy. Are you sure he is associated with them? Elegoo’s GitHub is elegooofficial (Elegoo) · GitHub
The title page you linked also mentions
So he might be associated in one way or pretend to be.
The license file still attributes the rights to adafruit
I would not worry much then and post source code. Sure you might get possibly some stupid people removing your credentials but probably not the masses.
So he might be associated in one way or pretend to be.
Note the comment "Initial commit from Elegoo's codebase".
I'll continue to avoid Elegoo. Which is not hard, because they offer nothing of interest.
Your choice, but I would not use this example as the rationale for it. It feels misinformed to me.
I have bought a few stuff from them, They sell good clones UNO or MEGA kits, readily available at a reasonable price on Amazon and the hardware works fine. Nothing to complain about, they are like the other cloners to me. (I buy also stuff from other vendors including adafruit and arduino. I’ve no religion on this)
Note the comment "Initial commit from Elegoo's codebase".
I don’t know what that means, when you branch from a repository you get a different text. Is that a text you just write when you submit the commit?
Once a very long time ago I wanted to "protect" some code I had written in Basic, a bit like you want. Tin Pathan case I wrote a simple script to change all the variables into my name. By using a mixture of uppercase and lower case letters I could get more than enough variables. It still ran but was impossible to read as when you read a word the capitalisation gets removed by your brain.
You could try the same thing with your source code.
Let's take a gallop poll.
(last one, I promise)...
but it appears they missed "Adafruit" in the Readme.txt 
BTW I agree this action by Elegoo is really sad. There are many other adjectives however they are not appropriate in public.
Hoping to make you smile a little.....
Years ago we had an engineer that was brown nosing one of the upper management team. He would claim that many of the novel designs others had created was his. We all knew it. But didn't say it publicly, just to the management person. So we just ignored.
Well the company went through rough times and most of us left. I heard later they found the above mentioned engineer was actually incompetent not that there was nobody to copy from. Never heard how it ended.
I’ve not specific interest in defending Elegoo but the GitHub repository linked above does not appear to be from elegoo. I see them innocent until proven guilty!…
The plagiarism seems to come from this Erutan409/Michael Keyser guy
It might just be a sad modification without proper attribution (the license still states adafruit) from a random GitHub repository
Forking someone else code and publishing under your repository if you have done some modifications is common, adafruit did it for their RTCLib for example but they are very clear in the various files they leveraged the work from JeeLabs
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