diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
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+include 
+include client/README client/LICENCE
+include server/README server/LICENCE
+include server/electrum.php
+recursive-include client *.py
+recursive-include server *.py
+recursive-include server/patches *
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+from distutils.core import setup
+
+setup(name = "Electrum",
+    version = "0.2",
+    description = "Lightweight Bitcoin Wallet",
+    author = "thomasv",
+    license = "GNU GPLv3",
+    url = "http://ecdsa/electrum",
+    long_description = """Lightweight Bitcoin Wallet""" 
+)