diff --git a/Data/Serialize/Instances.hs b/Data/Serialize/Instances.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE StandaloneDeriving,DeriveGeneric #-}
+module Data.Serialize.Instances where
+
+import Data.Hashable
+import Data.HashMap.Lazy as Lazy
+import Data.List.NonEmpty
+import Data.Serialize
+import Data.Typeable
+import Data.Typeable.Internal
+
+import GHC.Generics
+
+class Serialize1 f where
+    put1 :: Serialize a => Putter (f a)
+    default put1 :: Serialize (f a) => Putter (f a)
+    put1 = put
+    get1 :: Serialize a => Get (f a)
+    default get1 :: Serialize (f a) => Get (f a)
+    get1 = get
+
+deriving instance Generic Fingerprint
+deriving instance Generic TypeRep
+
+instance Serialize Fingerprint where
+instance Serialize TyCon where
+    get = mkTyCon3 <$> get <*> get <*> get
+    put x = do
+        put $ tyConPackage x
+        put $ tyConModule x
+        put $ tyConName x
+instance Serialize TypeRep where
+
+instance Serialize1 NonEmpty where
+
+instance Serialize a => Serialize (NonEmpty a) where
+
+instance (Eq k,Hashable k,Serialize k,Serialize a) => Serialize (Lazy.HashMap k a) where
+    get = Lazy.fromList <$> get
+    put = put . Lazy.toList
+
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2016 Simon Hudon
+
+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/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/serialize-instances.cabal b/serialize-instances.cabal
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+-- Initial generic-instances.cabal generated by cabal init.  For further 
+-- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
+
+-- The name of the package.
+name:                serialize-instances
+
+-- The package version.  See the Haskell package versioning policy (PVP) 
+-- for standards guiding when and how versions should be incremented.
+-- http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy
+-- PVP summary:      +-+------- breaking API changes
+--                   | | +----- non-breaking API additions
+--                   | | | +--- code changes with no API change
+version:             0.1.0.0
+
+-- A short (one-line) description of the package.
+synopsis:            Instances for Serialize of cereal
+
+-- A longer description of the package.
+description:         Instances for Serialize of cereal, especially for TypeRep and NonEmpty
+
+-- The license under which the package is released.
+license:             MIT
+
+-- The file containing the license text.
+license-file:        LICENSE
+
+-- The package author(s).
+author:              Simon Hudon
+
+-- An email address to which users can send suggestions, bug reports, and 
+-- patches.
+maintainer:          simon@cse.yorku.ca
+
+-- A copyright notice.
+-- copyright:           
+
+category:            GHC
+
+build-type:          Simple
+
+-- Extra files to be distributed with the package, such as examples or a 
+-- README.
+-- extra-source-files:  
+
+-- Constraint on the version of Cabal needed to build this package.
+cabal-version:       >=1.10
+
+source-repository head
+  type:     git
+  location: https://github.com/literate-unitb/serialize-instances
+
+library
+  -- Modules exported by the library.
+  exposed-modules:     Data.Serialize.Instances
+  
+  -- Modules included in this library but not exported.
+  -- other-modules:       
+  
+  -- LANGUAGE extensions used by modules in this package.
+  default-extensions:    TemplateHaskell, QuasiQuotes, DefaultSignatures, MultiParamTypeClasses, RankNTypes, FlexibleInstances, FlexibleContexts
+  
+  -- Other library packages from which modules are imported.
+  build-depends:       base >=4.7 && <5, semigroups >=0.16 && <0.19, cereal >=0.4 && <0.6, unordered-containers, hashable
+  
+  ghc-options: -W -fwarn-missing-signatures 
+         -fwarn-incomplete-uni-patterns
+         -fwarn-missing-methods
+         -fno-ignore-asserts
+         -fwarn-tabs
+         -j8
+
+  -- Directories containing source files.
+  hs-source-dirs:      .
+  
+  -- Base language which the package is written in.
+  default-language:    Haskell2010