終身仁慈獨裁者

終身仁慈獨裁者（英語：Benevolent Dictator For Life，縮寫BDFL）是少數開源軟體開發者所擁有的頭銜。他們通常是某一專案的創始人，並在該專案社群出現爭議時擁有最終的決定權。

這一稱號誕生於1995年，最初用來指Python語言的創始人吉多·范羅蘇姆。^[1]^[2]當時在范羅蘇姆剛加入全國研究創新聯合會（英語：Corporation for National Research Initiatives）後，肯馬·內梅爾（英語：Ken Manheimer）在一封郵件中試圖創立一個監管Python語言開發的半正式團體。他在該郵件中首次使用了BDFL這一稱呼，並戲稱范羅蘇姆為「首任臨時BDFL」。^[1]2018年7月12日，范羅蘇姆宣布不再出任Python語言的BDFL。^[3]

值得一提的是，BDFL與另一個用來指開源運動領導人的稱呼「仁慈的獨裁者」（benevolent dictator）的含義並不一致。後者因埃里克·雷蒙的《開拓智域》（Homesteading the Noosphere）一文而廣為人知。雷蒙在文中提到，開源軟體運動的本質會促使「獨裁者」保持仁慈，否則巨大的分歧會導致專案被復刻並由新的領導所掌管。^[4]

被稱為BDFL的人物列表

More information 姓名, 專案 ...

姓名	專案	參考
Juan Benet	星際檔案系統	^[5]
Sylvain Benner	Spacemacs	^[6]
維塔利克·布特林	以太坊	^[7]
Dries Buytaert	content management framework	^[8]
Evan Czaplicki	Elm	^[9]^[10]
大衛·漢森	Ruby on Rails	^[11]
Rich Hickey	Clojure	^[12]
Adrian Holovaty Jacob Kaplan-Moss	Django	^[13]
克里斯·拉特納	Swift	^[14]
Xavier Leroy	OCaml	^[15]^[16]
松本行弘	Ruby	^[17]
Wes McKinney	Pandas	^[18]
布萊姆·米勒	Vim	^[19]
馬特·查爾斯·穆倫維格	WordPress	^[20]
Martin Odersky	Scala	^[21]
Taylor Otwell	Laravel	^[22]^[23]
西奧·德·若特	OpenBSD	^[24]
Daniel Robbins	Funtoo Linux	^[25]
彤·羅森達爾	Blender	^[26]
Sébastien Ros	Orchard計劃	^[27]
吉多·范羅蘇姆	Python	^[11]^[28]^[3]
馬克·沙特爾沃思	Ubuntu	^[29]
Don Syme	F♯	^[30]
林納斯·托瓦茲	Linux	^[11]^[31]
José Valim	Elixir	^[32]
Pauli Virtanen	SciPy	^[33]^[34]
Patrick Volkerding	Slackware	^[35]
Nathan Voxland	Liquibase	^[36]
Shaun Walker	DotNetNuke	^[37]
拉里·沃爾	Perl	^[38]
Jemery Soller	Redox	^[39]

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