diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/gnused/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/gnused/default.nix
index 815f16769b80..d294fbcda055 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/gnused/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/gnused/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnused-4.1.5";
+  name = "gnused-4.1.4";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.1.5.tar.gz;
-    md5 = "7a1cbbbb3341287308e140bd4834c3ba";
+    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/sed-4.1.4.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "2a62ceadcb571d2dac006f81df5ddb48";
   };
 }