diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 18de6217e348..d78f9e76878e 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -6329,6 +6329,12 @@
     github = "jsimonetti";
     githubId = 5478838;
   };
+  jsoo1 = {
+    email = "jsoo1@asu.edu";
+    github = "jsoo1";
+    name = "John Soo";
+    githubId = 10039785;
+  };
   jtcoolen = {
     email = "jtcoolen@pm.me";
     name = "Julien Coolen";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/default.nix
index 7fdaa319619d..a0ee76ec46fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/default.nix
@@ -1,27 +1,29 @@
-{lib, stdenv, fetchurl}:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "cpulimit";
-  version = "2.7";
+  version = "0.2";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/limitcpu/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "sha256-HeBApPikDf6MegJf6YB1ZzRo+8P8zMvCMbx0AvYuxKA=";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "opsengine";
+    repo = "cpulimit";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1dz045yhcsw1rdamzpz4bk8mw888in7fyqk1q1b3m1yk4pd1ahkh";
   };
 
-  buildFlags = with stdenv; [ (
-    if isDarwin then "osx"
-    else if isFreeBSD then "freebsd"
-    else "cpulimit"
-  ) ];
+  patches = [ ./remove-sys-sysctl.h.patch ./get-missing-basename.patch ];
 
-  installFlags = [ "PREFIX=$(out)" ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    cp src/cpulimit $out/bin
+  '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "http://limitcpu.sourceforge.net/";
-    description = "A tool to throttle the CPU usage of programs";
-    platforms = with platforms; linux ++ freebsd;
+    homepage = "https://github.com/opsengine/cpulimit";
+    description = "CPU usage limiter";
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
     license = licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = [maintainers.rycee];
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.jsoo1 ];
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/get-missing-basename.patch b/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/get-missing-basename.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d27eda0b6fa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/get-missing-basename.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/src/process_group.c b/src/process_group.c
+index 06d73a6..3ca66b0 100644
+--- a/src/process_group.c
++++ b/src/process_group.c
+@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
+  */
+ 
+ #include <string.h>
++#include <libgen.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <limits.h>
+ #include <sys/time.h>
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/remove-sys-sysctl.h.patch b/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/remove-sys-sysctl.h.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a152cab3acc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/cpulimit/remove-sys-sysctl.h.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Remove references to sys/sysctl.h which were deprecated long ago.
+
+diff --git a/src/cpulimit.c b/src/cpulimit.c
+index 50eabea..eba4615 100644
+--- a/src/cpulimit.c
++++ b/src/cpulimit.c
+@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
+ #include <sys/time.h>
++#ifdef __APPLE__
+ #include <sys/sysctl.h>
++#endif
+ #include <sys/resource.h>
+ #include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <sys/wait.h>
+
+-#ifdef __APPLE__ || __FREEBSD__
++#if defined(__APPLE__) || defined(__FREEBSD__)
+ #include <libgen.h>
+ #endif
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/limitcpu/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/limitcpu/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2d7fb55dcd9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/limitcpu/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{lib, stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "limitcpu";
+  version = "2.7";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/limitcpu/cpulimit-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "sha256-HeBApPikDf6MegJf6YB1ZzRo+8P8zMvCMbx0AvYuxKA=";
+  };
+
+  buildFlags = with stdenv; [ (
+    if isDarwin then "osx"
+    else if isFreeBSD then "freebsd"
+    else "cpulimit"
+  ) ];
+
+  installFlags = [ "PREFIX=$(out)" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "http://limitcpu.sourceforge.net/";
+    description = "A tool to throttle the CPU usage of programs";
+    platforms = with platforms; linux ++ freebsd;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = [maintainers.rycee];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 39a87adb38ba..ccb1e7582b88 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4054,6 +4054,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   lifeograph = callPackage ../applications/editors/lifeograph { };
 
+  limitcpu = callPackage ../tools/misc/limitcpu { };
+
   link-grammar = callPackage ../tools/text/link-grammar { };
 
   linuxptp = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/linuxptp { };