diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/notify/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/notify/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f87424b439c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/notify/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{ stdenv
+, fetchurl
+, python
+, pygobject2
+, pygtk
+, pkgs
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "python-notify-${version}";
+  version = "0.1.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.galago-project.org/files/releases/source/notify-python/notify-python-0.1.1.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "1kh4spwgqxm534qlzzf2ijchckvs0pwjxl1irhicjmlg7mybnfvx";
+  };
+
+  patches = stdenv.lib.singleton (fetchurl {
+    name = "libnotify07.patch";
+    url = "http://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/notify-python.git/plain/"
+        + "libnotify07.patch?id2=289573d50ae4838a1658d573d2c9f4c75e86db0c";
+    sha256 = "1lqdli13mfb59xxbq4rbq1f0znh6xr17ljjhwmzqb79jl3dig12z";
+  });
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    sed -i -e '/^PYGTK_CODEGEN/s|=.*|="${pygtk}/bin/pygtk-codegen-2.0"|' \
+      configure
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ python pygobject2 pygtk pkgs.libnotify pkgs.glib pkgs.gtk2 pkgs.dbus-glib ];
+
+  postInstall = "cd $out/lib/python*/site-packages && ln -s gtk-*/pynotify .";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python bindings for libnotify";
+    homepage = http://www.galago-project.org/;
+    license = licenses.lgpl3;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 787677ee59b..b1c854fbe7c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -2938,36 +2938,7 @@ in {
 
   notebook = callPackage ../development/python-modules/notebook { };
 
-  notify = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
-    name = "python-notify-0.1.1";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = http://www.galago-project.org/files/releases/source/notify-python/notify-python-0.1.1.tar.bz2;
-      sha256 = "1kh4spwgqxm534qlzzf2ijchckvs0pwjxl1irhicjmlg7mybnfvx";
-    };
-
-    patches = singleton (pkgs.fetchurl {
-      name = "libnotify07.patch";
-      url = "http://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/notify-python.git/plain/"
-          + "libnotify07.patch?id2=289573d50ae4838a1658d573d2c9f4c75e86db0c";
-      sha256 = "1lqdli13mfb59xxbq4rbq1f0znh6xr17ljjhwmzqb79jl3dig12z";
-    });
-
-    postPatch = ''
-      sed -i -e '/^PYGTK_CODEGEN/s|=.*|="${self.pygtk}/bin/pygtk-codegen-2.0"|' \
-        configure
-    '';
-
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.pkgconfig ];
-    buildInputs = with self; [ python pkgs.libnotify pygobject2 pygtk pkgs.glib pkgs.gtk2 pkgs.dbus-glib ];
-
-    postInstall = "cd $out/lib/python*/site-packages && ln -s gtk-*/pynotify .";
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Python bindings for libnotify";
-      homepage = http://www.galago-project.org/;
-    };
-  });
+  notify = callPackage ../development/python-modules/notify { };
 
   notify2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/notify2 {};