diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 4e9e663963cb..fa68e87eb11a 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -5028,6 +5028,12 @@
     github = "definfo";
     githubId = 66514911;
   };
+  deftdawg = {
+    name = "DeftDawg";
+    github = "deftdawg";
+    email = "deftdawg@gmail.com";
+    githubId = 4991612;
+  };
   deifactor = {
     name = "Ash Zahlen";
     email = "ext0l@riseup.net";
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/co/cope/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/co/cope/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d1aed0b02c5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/co/cope/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  perl,
+  perlPackages,
+}:
+
+perlPackages.buildPerlPackage {
+  pname = "cope";
+  version = "0-unstable-2024-03-27";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "deftdawg";
+    repo = "cope";
+    rev = "ad0c1ebec5684f5ec3e8becf348414292c489175";
+    hash = "sha256-LMAir7tUkjHtKz+KME/Raa9QHGN1g0bzr56fNxfURQY=";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = with perlPackages; [
+    EnvPath
+    FileShareDir
+    IOPty
+    IOStty
+    ListMoreUtils
+    RegexpCommon
+    RegexpIPv6
+  ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    mv $out/${perlPackages.perl.libPrefix}/${perlPackages.perl.version}/auto/share/dist/Cope/* $out/bin/
+    rm -r $out/${perlPackages.perl.libPrefix}/${perlPackages.perl.version}/auto
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A colourful wrapper for terminal programs";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/deftdawg/cope";
+    license = with lib.licenses; [
+      artistic1
+      gpl1Plus
+    ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ deftdawg ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index c614524a9eb1..81749fdc74d7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ mapAliases {
   CoinMP = coinmp; # Added 2024-06-12
   collada-dom = opencollada; # added 2024-02-21
   composable_kernel = throw "'composable_kernel' has been replaced with 'rocmPackages.composable_kernel'"; # Added 2023-10-08
-  cope = throw "'cope' has been removed, as it is broken in nixpkgs since it was added, and fixing it is not trivial"; # Added 2024-04-12
   coriander = throw "'coriander' has been removed because it depends on GNOME 2 libraries"; # Added 2024-06-27
   corretto19 = throw "Corretto 19 was removed as it has reached its end of life"; # Added 2024-08-01
   cosmic-tasks = tasks; # Added 2024-07-04