diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
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+Ozgun Ataman <ozataman@gmail.com>
+Doug Beardsley <mightybyte@gmail.com>
+Gregory Collins <greg@gregorycollins.net>
+Carl Howells <chowells79@gmail.com>
+Chris Smith <cdsmith@gmail.com>
+Jurriën Stutterheim <j.stutterheim@me.com>
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2009, Snap Framework authors (see CONTRIBUTORS)
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this
+list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or
+other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+Neither the name of the Snap Framework authors nor the names of its
+contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
+software without specific prior written permission.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
+ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
+SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
+CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
+OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
diff --git a/README.SNAP.md b/README.SNAP.md
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+Snap Framework
+--------------
+
+Snap is a simple and fast web development framework and server written in
+Haskell. For more information or to download the latest version, you can visit
+the Snap project website at http://snapframework.com/.
+
+
+Snap Status and Features
+------------------------
+
+The Snap core system consists of:
+
+  * a high-speed HTTP server, with an optional high-concurrency backend using
+    the [libev](http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html) library
+
+  * a sensible and clean monad for web programming
+
+  * an xml-based templating system for generating HTML that allows you to bind
+    Haskell functionality to XML tags without getting PHP-style tag soup all
+    over your pants
+
+  * a "snaplet" system for building web sites from composable pieces.
+
+Snap is currently only officially supported on Unix platforms; it has been
+tested on Linux and Mac OSX Snow Leopard, and is reported to work on Windows.
+
+
+Snap Philosophy
+---------------
+
+Snap aims to be the *de facto* web toolkit for Haskell, on the basis of:
+
+  * High performance
+
+  * High design standards
+
+  * Simplicity and ease of use, even for Haskell beginners
+
+  * Excellent documentation
+
+  * Robustness and high test coverage
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+Snap Framework
+==============
+
+Snap is a web framework for Haskell, based on iteratee I/O (as [popularized by
+Oleg Kiselyov](http://okmij.org/ftp/Streams.html#iteratee)).  For more
+information about Snap, read the `README.SNAP.md` or visit the Snap project
+website at http://www.snapframework.com/.
+
+## Library contents
+
+This is utility project for the Snap Framework, which contains a
+library allowing Snap applications to run at full compiled speed with
+no overhead, in a way that's drop-in compatible with
+snap-loader-dynamic.
+
+Building snap-loader-static
+===========================
+
+This library is built using
+[Cabal](http://www.haskell.org/cabal/) and
+[Hackage](http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html). Just run
+
+    cabal install
+
+from the `snap-loader-static` toplevel directory.
+
+
+## Building the Haddock Documentation
+
+The haddock documentation can be built using 'cabal haddock'.
+
+The docs get put in `dist/doc/html/`.
+
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/snap-loader-static.cabal b/snap-loader-static.cabal
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+name:           snap-loader-static
+version:        0.9.0
+synopsis:       Snap: A Haskell Web Framework: static loader
+description:    Snap Framework static loader
+license:        BSD3
+license-file:   LICENSE
+author:         Carl Howells
+maintainer:     snap@snapframework.com
+build-type:     Simple
+cabal-version:  >= 1.8
+homepage:       http://snapframework.com/
+category:       Web, Snap
+
+extra-source-files:
+  CONTRIBUTORS,
+  LICENSE,
+  README.md,
+  README.SNAP.md
+
+Library
+  hs-source-dirs: src
+
+  exposed-modules:
+    Snap.Loader.Static
+
+  build-depends:
+    base              >= 4       && < 5,
+    template-haskell  >= 2.2     && < 2.8
+
+  if impl(ghc >= 6.12.0)
+    ghc-options: -Wall -fwarn-tabs -funbox-strict-fields -O2
+                 -fno-warn-orphans -fno-warn-unused-do-bind
+  else
+    ghc-options: -Wall -fwarn-tabs -funbox-strict-fields -O2
+                 -fno-warn-orphans
+
+source-repository head
+  type:     git
+  location: git://github.com/snapframework/snap-loader-static.git
+
diff --git a/src/Snap/Loader/Static.hs b/src/Snap/Loader/Static.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
+
+module Snap.Loader.Static
+  ( loadSnapTH
+  ) where
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+import Language.Haskell.TH (Exp, Name, Q, varE)
+
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- | This function provides a non-magical type-compatible loader for
+-- the one in snap-dynamic's Snap.Loader.Devel, allowing switching one
+-- import to provide production-mode compilation.
+--
+-- This could be considered a TH wrapper around a function
+--
+-- > loadSnap :: Typeable a => IO a -> (a -> IO (Snap (), IO ()))
+-- >                        -> [String] -> IO (a, Snap (), IO ())
+--
+-- The third argument is unused, and only present for
+-- type-compatibility with Snap.Loader.Devel
+loadSnapTH :: Q Exp -> Name -> [String] -> Q Exp
+loadSnapTH initializer action _additionalWatchDirs =
+    [| do value <- $initializer
+          (site, conf) <- $(varE action) value
+          return (value, site, conf) |]
