diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/jsoncpp/1.6.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/jsoncpp/1.6.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..69dfc217573
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/jsoncpp/1.6.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, python }:
+
+let
+  basename = "jsoncpp";
+  version = "1.6.0";
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "${basename}-${version}";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/open-source-parsers/${basename}/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0ff1niks3y41gr6z13q9m391na70abqyi9rj4z3y2fz69cwm6sgz";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake python ];
+
+  meta = {
+    inherit version;
+    homepage = https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp;
+    description = "A simple API to manipulate JSON data in C++";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ ttuegel ];
+    license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ mit ];
+    branch = "1.6";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c91c1625196..e9dcac1c133 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6074,6 +6074,7 @@ let
   json_c = callPackage ../development/libraries/json-c { };
 
   jsoncpp = callPackage ../development/libraries/jsoncpp { };
+  jsoncpp-1_6 = callPackage ../development/libraries/jsoncpp/1.6.nix { };
 
   libjson = callPackage ../development/libraries/libjson { };