diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 690a7e0fd..a075fcaf5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ setup(
                 'djangorestframework.runtests',
                 'djangorestframework.utils'],
     package_dir={'djangorestframework': 'djangorestframework'},
-    package_data = {'djangorestframework': ['templates/*', 'static/*']},
+    package_data = {'djangorestframework': ['templates/*', 'static/*',
+        'static/css/*']},
+    exclude_package_data = {'djangorestframework': ['static/css']},
     test_suite = 'djangorestframework.runtests.runcoverage.main',
     install_requires=['URLObject>=0.6.0'],
     classifiers = [