diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/w3c-css-validator/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/w3c-css-validator/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c7aa5261a2..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/w3c-css-validator/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, sourceFromHead, apacheAnt, tomcat, jre }:
-
-let
-
-  sources =
-    [ (fetchurl {
-        name = "jigsaw_2.2.6.tar.gz";
-        url="http://jigsaw.w3.org/Distrib/jigsaw_2.2.6.tar.gz";
-        sha256 = "01cjpqjcs8gbvvzy0f488cb552f9b38hvwr97wydglrzndmcwypd";
-      })
-      (fetchurl {
-        name = "commons-collectionurl3.2.1-bin.tar.gz";
-        url="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/collections/binaries/commons-collections-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz";
-        sha256 = "7843f8307495b2be446353b10c25218793b776fa3e22615a1f50f067d81713ce";
-      })
-      (fetchurl {
-        name = "commons-lang-2.4-bin.tar.gz";
-        url="http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/lang/binaries/commons-lang-2.4-bin.tar.gz";
-        sha256 = "0phwlgnvwj3n3j1aka2pkm0biacvgs72qc0ldir6s69i9qbv7rh0";
-      })
-      (fetchurl {
-        name = "velocity-1.6.1.tar.gz";
-        url="http://www.apache.org/dist/velocity/engine/1.6.1/velocity-1.6.1.tar.gz";
-        sha256 = "125s8yp8whx947kahm902wc49ms44knxdj6yfskhpk0a8h0rz9jm";
-      })
-      (fetchurl {
-        name = "Xerces-J-bin.2.9.1.tar.gz";
-        url="http://www.apache.org/dist/xerces/j/Xerces-J-bin.2.9.1.tar.gz";
-        sha256 = "1xlrrznfgdars0a9m9z5k9q8arbqskdfdfjx4s0pp52wn3r0gbns";
-      })
-    ];
-
-in
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "w3c-css-validator";
-
-  # REGION AUTO UPDATE:       { name="w3c-css-validator"; type="cvs"; cvsRoot=":pserver:anonymous:anonymous@dev.w3.org:/sources/public"; module="2002/css-validator"; }
-  src = sourceFromHead "w3c-css-validator-F_17-52-37.tar.gz"
-               (fetchurl { url = "http://mawercer.de/~nix/repos/w3c-css-validator-F_17-52-37.tar.gz"; sha256 = "b6f05d4812eaa464906d101242689effa8b5516d32d6420315740a77d8ee11fd"; });
-  # END
-
-  buildInputs = [ apacheAnt ];
-
-  # prepare target downloads dependency .tar.gz into tmp
-  # note: There is a .war as well which could be deployed to tomcat
-  installPhase = ''
-    cd css-validator
-    mkdir tmp
-    ${ stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (map (src: "tar xfz ${src} -C tmp") sources) }
-    sed -i -e 's@<property name="servlet.lib" value=".*"/>@<property name="servlet.lib" value="${tomcat}/lib/servlet-api.jar"/>@' \
-          -e '/dest="tmp\//d' \
-          -e '/untar/d' \
-          build.xml
-    ant
-    mkdir -p $out/{bin,lib}
-    JAR=$out/lib/css-validator.jar
-    cat >> $out/bin/css-validator << EOF
-    #!/bin/sh
-    exec ${jre}/bin/java -jar $JAR "\$@"
-    EOF
-    chmod +x $out/bin/css-validator
-    cp css-validator.jar $out/lib
-    cp -r lib $out/lib/lib
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "W3C CSS validator";
-    homepage = http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2002/css-validator/;
-    # dependencies ship their own license files
-    # I think all .java files are covered by this license (?)
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.w3c;
-    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.marcweber ];
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 46f73556894..42e6a4599a0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3228,10 +3228,6 @@ let
 
   wavemon = callPackage ../tools/networking/wavemon { };
 
-  w3cCSSValidator = callPackage ../tools/misc/w3c-css-validator {
-    tomcat = tomcat6;
-  };
-
   wdfs = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/wdfs { };
 
   wdiff = callPackage ../tools/text/wdiff { };