diff --git a/package/python-paho-mqtt/python-paho-mqtt.hash b/package/python-paho-mqtt/python-paho-mqtt.hash
index bf3993e919..81b9dda81d 100644
--- a/package/python-paho-mqtt/python-paho-mqtt.hash
+++ b/package/python-paho-mqtt/python-paho-mqtt.hash
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-# md5 from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/paho-mqtt/json, sha256 locally computed
-md5  e3ac29cd5dc247a01083a2a8f3fddd08  paho-mqtt-1.4.0.tar.gz
-sha256  e440a052b46d222e184be3be38676378722072fcd4dfd2c8f509fb861a7b0b79  paho-mqtt-1.4.0.tar.gz
-sha256  76f13729e84e9222e543303df00f87d1b2c0995b6a505cd859a285667e44babb  LICENSE.txt
+# locally computed
+sha256  6e35c1be242a901fc9c00bad7d37b5cc4a497f398dfceb4ed0d8018a959be650  python-paho-mqtt-1.6.1.tar.gz
+sha256  66408b049249c3bdb0ba1ed285f5422ce67e371d40151bebd4d806af454ffe7c  LICENSE.txt
 sha256  e8cf7d54ea46c19aba793983889b7f7425e1ebfcaaccec764a7db091646e203c  edl-v10
-sha256  3b9be6b894d0769de796e653571ff6cef494913c0ce78c35a97db939e7d9087c  epl-v10
+sha256  8c349f80764d0648e645f41ef23772a70c995a0924b5235f735f4a3d09df127c  epl-v20
diff --git a/package/python-paho-mqtt/python-paho-mqtt.mk b/package/python-paho-mqtt/python-paho-mqtt.mk
index d192749e1e..f255a7847d 100644
--- a/package/python-paho-mqtt/python-paho-mqtt.mk
+++ b/package/python-paho-mqtt/python-paho-mqtt.mk
@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_VERSION = 1.4.0
-PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_SOURCE = paho-mqtt-$(PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_VERSION).tar.gz
-PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_SITE = https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/25/63/db25e62979c2a716a74950c9ed658dce431b5cb01fde29eb6cba9489a904
-PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_LICENSE = EPL-1.0 or EDLv1.0
-PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt edl-v10 epl-v10
+PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_VERSION = 1.6.1
+PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_SITE = $(call github,eclipse,paho.mqtt.python,v$(PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_VERSION))
+PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_LICENSE = EPL-2.0, EDLv1.0
+PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt epl-v20 edl-v10
 PYTHON_PAHO_MQTT_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 
 $(eval $(python-package))