diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 0c52faef1bf..c7637402202 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ lpty,,,,
 lrexlib-gnu,,,,
 lrexlib-posix,,,,
 ltermbox,,,,
+cjson,lua-cjson,,,
 lua-cmsgpack,,,,
 lua_cliargs,,,,
 lua-iconv,,,,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index e7557930f11..8797aab422f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -352,6 +352,25 @@ ltermbox = buildLuarocksPackage {
     };
   };
 };
+cjson = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "lua-cjson";
+  version = "2.1.0.6-1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = https://luarocks.org/lua-cjson-2.1.0.6-1.src.rock;
+    sha256 = "0dqqkn0aygc780kiq2lbydb255r8is7raf7md0gxdjcagp8afps5";
+  };
+  disabled = (luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ lua ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/lua-cjson.php";
+    description = "A fast JSON encoding/parsing module";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT";
+    };
+  };
+};
 lua-cmsgpack = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "lua-cmsgpack";
   version = "0.4.0-0";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
index 57cd6de1b5a..7c9a4bbe583 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
@@ -684,37 +684,6 @@ with self; {
     };
   };
 
-  cjson = buildLuaPackage rec {
-    name = "cjson-${version}";
-    version = "2.1.0";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "http://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/download/lua-${name}.tar.gz";
-      sha256 = "0y67yqlsivbhshg8ma535llz90r4zag9xqza5jx0q7lkap6nkg2i";
-    };
-
-    preBuild = ''
-      sed -i "s|/usr/local|$out|" Makefile
-    '';
-
-    makeFlags = [ "LUA_VERSION=${lua.luaversion}" ];
-
-    postInstall = ''
-      rm -rf $out/share/lua/${lua.luaversion}/cjson/tests
-    '';
-
-    installTargets = "install install-extra";
-
-    disabled = isLuaJIT;
-
-    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-      description = "Lua C extension module for JSON support";
-      homepage = "https://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/lua-cjson.php";
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ vyp ];
-    };
-  };
-
   mpack = buildLuaPackage rec {
     name = "mpack-${version}";
     version = "1.0.7";