diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+# Linux
+*~
+*.swp
+
+# Windows
+Thumbs.db
+desktop.ini
+
+# Mac OS X
+.DS_Store
+._*
+
+# Composer
+/composer.lock
+/composer.phar
+/vendor
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2012 The Pico Community
+
+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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+Pico Default Theme
+==================
+
+This is the repository of Pico's official default theme.
+
+Pico is a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS. See http://picocms.org/ for more info.
+
+Please refer to [`picocms/Pico`](https://github.com/picocms/Pico) to get info about how to contribute or getting help.
+
+Screenshot
+----------
+
+![Pico Screenshot](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/920356/17342119/f5a85ee8-58f7-11e6-856e-cd72f76cec61.png)
+
+Install
+-------
+
+You don't have to install this theme manually, it's already a dependency of Pico's core.
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
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+{
+    "name": "picocms/pico-theme",
+    "type": "pico-theme",
+    "description": "This is Pico's official default theme. Pico is a stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.",
+    "keywords": ["pico","pico-theme"],
+    "homepage": "http://picocms.org/",
+    "license": "MIT",
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "name": "The Pico Community",
+            "homepage": "http://picocms.org/"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "Contributors",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/picocms/pico-theme/graphs/contributors"
+        }
+    ],
+    "support": {
+        "docs": "http://picocms.org/themes/default/",
+        "issues": "https://github.com/picocms/pico-theme/issues",
+        "source": "https://github.com/picocms/pico-theme"
+    },
+    "require": {
+        "composer/installers": "~1.0"
+    },
+    "extra": {
+        "installer-name": "default"
+    }
+}
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