diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/libfolia.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libfolia/package.nix
similarity index 70%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/libfolia.nix
rename to pkgs/by-name/li/libfolia/package.nix
index 33d71bef3beb..c2dc9b1417a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/libfolia.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/li/libfolia/package.nix
@@ -1,34 +1,33 @@
 {
   lib,
   stdenv,
-  fetchurl,
-  automake,
-  autoconf,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  gitUpdater,
+  autoreconfHook,
   libtool,
   pkg-config,
   autoconf-archive,
   libxml2,
-  icu,
+  icu60,
   bzip2,
   libtar,
-  languageMachines,
+  ticcutils,
 }:
 
-let
-  release = lib.importJSON ./release-info/LanguageMachines-libfolia.json;
-in
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "libfolia";
-  version = release.version;
-  src = fetchurl {
-    inherit (release) url sha256;
-    name = "libfolia-${release.version}.tar.gz";
+  version = "1.7";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "LanguageMachines";
+    repo = "libfolia";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-fH+XqTaMf7/8ZA0lwWiD7s7fmGkjni83Q7lv5sh50H4=";
   };
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     pkg-config
-    automake
-    autoconf
+    autoreconfHook
   ];
   buildInputs = [
     bzip2
@@ -36,14 +35,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     autoconf-archive
     libtar
     libxml2
-    icu
-    languageMachines.ticcutils
+    icu60
+    ticcutils
   ];
-  preConfigure = "sh bootstrap.sh";
 
   # compat with icu61+ https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/release-64-2/icu4c/readme.html#L554
   CXXFLAGS = [ "-DU_USING_ICU_NAMESPACE=1" ];
 
+  passthru = {
+    updateScript = gitUpdater { rev-prefix = "v"; };
+  };
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "C++ API for FoLiA documents; an XML-based linguistic annotation format";
     mainProgram = "folialint";
@@ -57,4 +59,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     '';
   };
 
-}
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/packages.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/packages.nix
index 1515a68a296d..f279dfdeca39 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/packages.nix
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ let
 in
 {
   ticcutils = pkgs.ticcutils;
-  libfolia = callPackage ./libfolia.nix { inherit icu; };
+  libfolia = pkgs.libfolia;
   ucto = callPackage ./ucto.nix { inherit icu; };
   uctodata = callPackage ./uctodata.nix { };
   timbl = callPackage ./timbl.nix { };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/release-info/LanguageMachines-libfolia.json b/pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/release-info/LanguageMachines-libfolia.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 792d958213fb..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/languagemachines/release-info/LanguageMachines-libfolia.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "version": "v1.7",
-  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/LanguageMachines/libfolia/tarball/v1.7",
-  "sha256": "0hpxdry7n2887klryc587xv46p6z6jp6hz9x7k2pk5v7jb0z4s65"
-}