Meaning of BDFL | Babel Free

Definitions

Initialism of benevolent dictator for life.

abbreviation, alt-of, humorous, initialism

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level