diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE.md
similarity index 100%
rename from LICENSE
rename to LICENSE.md
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e1d37b9fdf661f07939db0b4333c2b358d75f25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+include LICENSE.md
+include README.md
+include requirements.txt
+prune tests
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 766c27f3cfb4c4e8d1156d2192f209619c820527..0099f5cf16e625f1cbd687338aaaf90b83009970 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ setup(
     version=__version__,
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests.*', 'tests']),
     tests_require=["nose", 'coverage>=4.0,<4.4'],
-    install_requires=map(str, parse_requirements('requirements.txt')),
+    install_requires=open('requirements.txt', 'r').readlines(),
     test_suite='nose.collector',
 )