BDFL

English

Noun

BDFL (plural BDFLs)

  1. (software, humorous) Initialism of benevolent dictator for life.
    • 2023, John Mertic, Open Source Projects—Beyond Code: A blueprint for scalable and sustainable open source projects, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 69:
      BDFL can be a type of governance that is part of a project from the onset, or it can emerge from the do-acracy form described earlier. We most often see the former: Rasmus Lerdorf with PHP, Linus Torvalds with the Linux kernel, and Guido van Rossum with Python.

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