diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/uemacs/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/uemacs/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e14a07eb6835..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/uemacs/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, ncurses }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "uemacs";
-  version = "2014-12-08";
-
-  src = fetchgit {
-    url = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git";
-    rev = "8841922689769960fa074fbb053cb8507f2f3ed9";
-    sha256 = "14yq7kpkax111cg6k7i3mnqk7sq7a65krq6qizzj7vvnm7bsj3sd";
-  };
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace Makefile \
-      --replace "-lcurses" "-lncurses" \
-      --replace "CFLAGS=-O2" "CFLAGS+=" \
-      --replace "BINDIR=/usr/bin" "BINDIR=$out/bin" \
-      --replace "LIBDIR=/usr/lib" "LIBDIR=$out/share/uemacs"
-    substituteInPlace epath.h \
-      --replace "/usr/global/lib/" "$out/share/uemacs/" \
-      --replace "/usr/local/bin/" "$out/bin/" \
-      --replace "/usr/local/lib/" "$out/share/uemacs/" \
-      --replace "/usr/local/" "$out/bin/" \
-      --replace "/usr/lib/" "$out/share/uemacs/"
-    mkdir -p $out/bin $out/share/uemacs
-  '';
-
-  buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    homepage = "https://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git";
-    description = "Torvalds Micro-emacs fork";
-    longDescription = ''
-      uEmacs/PK 4.0 is a full screen editor based on MicroEMACS 3.9e
-    '';
-    license = licenses.unfree;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c74f2249fc89..870a7fe39d14 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7939,8 +7939,6 @@ in
 
   udunits = callPackage ../development/libraries/udunits { };
 
-  uemacs = callPackage ../applications/editors/uemacs { };
-
   uftp = callPackage ../servers/uftp {};
 
   uhttpmock = callPackage ../development/libraries/uhttpmock { };