diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 4144d5f019f7..f88cd1212fb0 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -483,6 +483,7 @@
   vlstill = "Vladimír Štill <xstill@fi.muni.cz>";
   vmandela = "Venkateswara Rao Mandela <venkat.mandela@gmail.com>";
   volhovm = "Mikhail Volkhov <volhovm.cs@gmail.com>";
+  volth = "Jaroslavas Pocepko <jaroslavas@volth.com>";
   vozz = "Oliver Hunt <oliver.huntuk@gmail.com>";
   vrthra = "Rahul Gopinath <rahul@gopinath.org>";
   wedens = "wedens <kirill.wedens@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/fte/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/fte/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d32a3fb5f1b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/fte/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, unzip, perl, libX11, libXpm, gpm, ncurses, slang }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "fte-0.50.02";
+
+  buildInputs = [ unzip perl libX11 libXpm gpm ncurses slang ];
+
+  ftesrc = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/fte/fte-20110708-src.zip";
+    sha256 = "17j9akr19w19myglw5mljjw2g3i2cwxiqrjaln82h3rz5ma1qcfn";
+  };
+  ftecommon = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/fte/fte-20110708-common.zip";
+    sha256 = "1xva4kh0674sj2b9rhf2amlr37yxmsvjkgyj89gpcn0rndw1ahaq";
+  };
+  src = [ ftesrc ftecommon ];
+
+  buildFlags = "PREFIX=$(out)";
+
+  installFlags = "PREFIX=$(out) INSTALL_NONROOT=1";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A free text editor for developers";
+    homepage = http://fte.sourceforge.net/;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.volth ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4e1aa07ec341..a9ed052f1f46 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -13168,6 +13168,8 @@ in
     boost = boost155;
   };
 
+  fte = callPackage ../applications/editors/fte { };
+
   game-music-emu = callPackage ../applications/audio/game-music-emu { };
 
   gcolor2 = callPackage ../applications/graphics/gcolor2 { };