diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/google_apputils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/google_apputils/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..66bad999dfb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/google_apputils/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{ stdenv
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, pytz
+, gflags
+, dateutil
+, mox
+, python
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "google-apputils";
+  version = "0.4.1";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1sxsm5q9vr44qzynj8l7p3l7ffb0zl1jdqhmmzmalkx941nbnj1b";
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    sed -i '/ez_setup/d' setup.py
+  '';
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pytz gflags dateutil mox ];
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    ${python.executable} setup.py google_test
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Google Application Utilities for Python";
+    homepage = http://code.google.com/p/google-apputils-python;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 2456cb9d6923..16410267a97a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2400,31 +2400,7 @@ in {
 
   google_api_python_client = callPackage ../development/python-modules/google-api-python-client { };
 
-  google_apputils = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    name = "google-apputils-0.4.1";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://pypi/g/google-apputils/${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "1sxsm5q9vr44qzynj8l7p3l7ffb0zl1jdqhmmzmalkx941nbnj1b";
-    };
-
-    preConfigure = ''
-      sed -i '/ez_setup/d' setup.py
-    '';
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ pytz gflags dateutil mox ];
-
-    checkPhase = ''
-      ${python.executable} setup.py google_test
-    '';
-
-    doCheck = true;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Google Application Utilities for Python";
-      homepage = http://code.google.com/p/google-apputils-python;
-    };
-  };
+  google_apputils = callPackage ../development/python-modules/google_apputils { };
 
   google_auth = callPackage ../development/python-modules/google_auth { };