diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
index e69de29..4d02b2e 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.cvsignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+hyph_de_DE.zip
diff --git a/hyphen-de.spec b/hyphen-de.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2729dcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyphen-de.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+Name: hyphen-de
+Summary: German hyphenation rules
+%define upstreamid 20060120
+Version: 0.%{upstreamid}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
+Source: http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/hyph_de_DE.zip
+Group: Applications/Text
+URL: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
+BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+License: LGPLv2+
+BuildArch: noarch
+Requires: hyphen
+
+%description
+German hyphenation rules.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -c -n hyphen-de
+
+%build
+iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 README_hyph_de_DE.txt > README_hyph_de_DE.txt.new
+mv -f README_hyph_de_DE.txt.new README_hyph_de_DE.txt
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/hyphen
+cp -p hyph_de_DE.dic $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/hyphen
+
+pushd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/hyphen/
+de_DE_aliases="de_AT de_BE de_CH de_LI de_LU"
+for lang in $de_DE_aliases; do
+        ln -s hyph_de_DE.dic hyph_$lang.dic
+done
+popd
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc README_hyph_de_DE.txt
+%{_datadir}/hyphen/*
+
+%changelog
+* Sun Nov 25 2007 Caolan McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 0.20060120-2
+- fix license
+
+* Fri Nov 23 2007 Caolan McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 0.20060120-1
+- initial version
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e69de29..ba9cc67 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+20e5b706ee3201aa2741dabca824cd8b  hyph_de_DE.zip