diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/default.nix
index 02ad58e7799..1674d01af8f 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchGitHub, python, pythonPackages, sysstat, unzip, tornado
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, python, pythonPackages, sysstat, unzip, tornado
 , makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   version = "4.2.1";
   name = "dd-agent-${version}";
 
-  src = fetchGitHub {
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "DataDog";
     repo = "dd-agent";
     rev = version;
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/recode/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/recode/default.nix
index 81b863a35df..8a15d0b9b56 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/recode/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/recode/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # XXX: this may need -liconv on non-glibc systems.. 
 
-{ stdenv, fetchGitHub, python, perl, autoconf, automake, libtool, intltool, flex }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, python, perl, autoconf, automake, libtool, intltool, flex }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "recode-3.7-2fd838565";
 
-  src = fetchGitHub {
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "pinard";
     repo = "Recode";
     rev = "2fd8385658e5a08700e3b916053f6680ff85fdbd";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 573810135b8..de242046893 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ let
 
   fetchzip = import ../build-support/fetchzip { inherit lib fetchurl unzip; };
 
-  fetchGitHub = { owner, repo, rev, sha256 }: fetchzip {
+  fetchFromGitHub = { owner, repo, rev, sha256 }: fetchzip {
     url = "https://github.com/${owner}/${repo}/archive/${rev}.zip";
     inherit sha256;
   };