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BDFL en · NOUN

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1. (abbreviation, alt-of, humorous, initialism) Initialism of benevolent dictator for life.
   alt of benevolent dictator for life
   • 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. 2023, John Mertic, Open Source Projects—Beyond Code: A blueprint for scalable and sustainable open source projects, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 69:

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BOFH