diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/default.nix
index de1a5ce7879f..612cdcc7f881 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/mg/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libbsd, ncurses, buildPackages }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pkgconfig, ncurses, buildPackages }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "mg";
-  version = "20171014";
+  version = "6.7";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0hakfikzsml7z0hja8m8mcahrmfy2piy81bq9nccsjplyfc9clai";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ibara";
+    repo = "mg";
+    rev = "mg-6.7";
+    sha256 = "15adwibq6xrfxbrxzk765g9250iyfn4wbcxd7kcsabiwn6apm0ai";
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
@@ -17,14 +19,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     install -m 555 -Dt $out/bin mg
     install -m 444 -Dt $out/share/man/man1 mg.1
   '';
-
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
 
-  buildInputs = [ libbsd ncurses ];
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Micro GNU/emacs, a portable version of the mg maintained by the OpenBSD team";
-    homepage = "https://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg";
+    homepage = "https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/mg.1";
     license = licenses.publicDomain;
     platforms = platforms.all;
   };