diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libwebp/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libwebp/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..854af5942f90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libwebp/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, libpng, libjpeg}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libwebp-0.1.3";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://webp.googlecode.com/files/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1fkssvg99s9ypswh4ywkirgcy1wmy3b6388f3cqj4a4vwdb89ca0";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ libpng libjpeg ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://code.google.com/p/webp/;
+    description = "Tools and library for the WebP image format";
+
+    /* It has its own licence, google-related, but that looks like BSD */
+    license = "free";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3476b7e1f936..f08fcb5cac7b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4233,6 +4233,8 @@ let
 
   libvorbis = callPackage ../development/libraries/libvorbis { };
 
+  libwebp = callPackage ../development/libraries/libwebp { };
+
   libwmf = callPackage ../development/libraries/libwmf { };
 
   libwpd = callPackage ../development/libraries/libwpd {