diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2008 Niklas Frykholm
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# markdown
+
+A pure-lua implementation of the Markdown text-to-html markup system, written by Niklas Frykholm.
+
+Original: http://frykholm.se/files/markdown.lua
diff --git a/markdown-scm-1.rockspec b/markdown-scm-1.rockspec
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+package = "Markdown"
+version = "scm-1"
+source = {
+   url = "git://github.com/mpeterv/markdown"
+}
+description = {
+   summary = "Markdown text-to-html markup system.",
+   detailed = "A pure-lua implementation of the Markdown text-to-html markup system.",
+   license = "MIT/X11",
+   homepage = "https://github.com/mpeterv/markdown"
+}
+dependencies = {
+   "lua >= 5.1"
+}
+build = {
+   type = "builtin",
+   modules = {
+      markdown = "markdown.lua"
+   }
+}