Problem: need a Hello, World project

Solution: copy from zbroker and strip down.

This builds an empty malamute main service that loads a configuration
file, optionally switches into the background, and then exits.

.gitignore

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 # Object files
 *.o
 *.ko
-*.obj
-*.elf
-
-# Precompiled Headers
-*.gch
-*.pch
 
 # Libraries
 *.lib
 *.a
-*.la
-*.lo
 
 # Shared objects (inc. Windows DLLs)
 *.dll
 *.so
 *.so.*
 *.dylib
+*.lo
 
 # Executables
 *.exe
 *.out
 *.app
-*.i*86
-*.x86_64
-*.hex
+
+Makefile
+Makefile.in
+aclocal.m4
+autom4te.cache/
+config.log
+config.status
+config/
+configure
+doc/Makefile
+doc/Makefile.in
+doc/*.1
+doc/*.3
+doc/*.7
+libtool
+.deps
+.libs
+src/Makefile
+src/Makefile.in
+src/malamute
+src/platform.h
+src/platform.h.in
+src/platform.h.in~
+src/stamp-h1
+src/test-suite.log
+src/mlm_selftest
+src/mlm_selftest.log
+src/mlm_selftest.trs
+doit*
+*.la
+*.pc
+core
+
+

AUTHORS

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+Contributors
+============
+
+Pieter Hintjens <ph@imatix.com>

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing to This Project
+
+The contributors are listed in AUTHORS (add yourself). This project uses the MPL v2 license, see LICENSE.
+
+Please read these documents BEFORE you send a patch:
+
+* We use the [C4.1 (Collective Code Construction Contract)](http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:22) process for contributions. Please read this if you are unfamiliar with it.
+
+* We use the [CLASS (C Language Style for Scalabilty)](http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:21) guide for code style. Please read this, and also read the existing code base.