# Academic licensing for AD/LDAP integration

**URL:** <https://forum.mattermost.com/t/academic-licensing-for-ad-ldap-integration/2280>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [September 25, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/academic-licensing-for-ad-ldap-integration/2280 "2016-09-25T15:45:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Th3Dan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Th3Dan](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/Th3Dan)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/academic-licensing-for-ad-ldap-integration/2280/1 "2016-09-25T15:45:50Z")

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Hello,

I want to install the community edition of mattermost for our trade school class of it specialists. My idea was to use a LDAP-Server, so that we can add other usefull applications later like gitlab for coding. I saw a LDAP section in the configuration-file. After some testing, the authentication using LDAP was not working. So I did some research and found out that according to the doc this feature is only avaliable in the enterprise edition.

This would result in licences costs of $600 per year, which is not suiteable for us. But I was wondering that the configuration file has a ldap section in the community edition when its not avaliable there.

So is LDAP working in mattermost community edition and I simply did mistakes in the configuration?  
Or is the documentation right, so that it’s only enabled in enterprise and the configuration file is shared for both community and enterprise edition?

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**Author:** ![it33](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/it33/32/3_2.png) [@it33](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/it33)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/academic-licensing-for-ad-ldap-integration/2280/2 "2016-09-27T14:09:11Z")

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The docs you reviewed are correct, there’s [academic licensing](https://about.mattermost.com/mattermost-academic-licensing/) available for Enterprise Edition E10, there’s also lots of organizations using Mattermost Team Edition under the MIT license.

To share some examples:

- [Penn Manor School District in the US](https://opensource.com/education/16/3/mattermost-open-source-chat)
- [University of British Columbia from Canada](http://ets.educ.ubc.ca/supported-learning-technologies/mattermost-chat/)