diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7f6335f64965
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libossp-uuid/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+let version = "1.6.2"; in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "libossp-uuid-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256= "11a615225baa5f8bb686824423f50e4427acd3f70d394765bdff32801f0fd5b0";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/;
+    description = "OSSP uuid ISO-C and C++ shared library";
+    longDescription =
+      ''
+        OSSP uuid is a ISO-C:1999 application programming interface
+        (API) and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the
+        generation of DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and RFC 4122
+        compliant Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). It supports
+        DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time and node based),
+        version 3 (name based, MD5), version 4 (random number based)
+        and version 5 (name based, SHA-1). Additional API bindings are
+        provided for the languages ISO-C++:1998, Perl:5 and
+        PHP:4/5. Optional backward compatibility exists for the ISO-C
+        DCE-1.1 and Perl Data::UUID APIs.
+
+        UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high
+        likelihood of uniqueness over space and time and are
+        computationally difficult to guess. They are globally unique
+        identifiers which can be locally generated without contacting
+        a global registration authority. UUIDs are intended as unique
+        identifiers for both mass tagging objects with an extremely
+        short lifetime and to reliably identifying very persistent
+        objects across a network.
+      '';
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd2;
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 07f2bde69a96..91be55c0ee01 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6600,6 +6600,8 @@ let
     python = pythonFull;
   };
 
+  libossp_uuid = callPackage ../development/libraries/libossp-uuid { };
+
   libuuid =
     if crossSystem != null && crossSystem.config == "i586-pc-gnu"
     then (utillinux // {