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+# mosquitto
+Mosquitto is an open source (EPL/EDL licensed) message broker that implements the MQTT protocol versions 3.1 and 3.1.1. MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "Internet of Things" messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers like the Arduino.
+
+Mosquitto is an [iot.eclipse.org](http://iot.eclipse.org/) project
+
+## Building
+Make sure that you have installed the `base-devel` package. Run either `makepkg -s --skippgpcheck` or
+```
+gpg --list-keys
+gpg --recv-keys 779B22DFB3E717B7
+makepkg -s
+```
+as the current user to build the package.
+
+## See Also
+http://mosquitto.org/