.. and happily so. We (few) devs like gitlab and it was a relatively cheap way to keep the devs happy. The feel-good factor about giving something back. Now it grows to a number that people will actually notice :/

Note that it's not the basic ldap authentication but ldap group sync and especially admin accounts in our case. Basic ldap auth works on the free plan. (ldap authed users take a subscription seat, which costs $0 on the free plan)