diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3776961..8bd9591 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ setup(name='talon',
           "lxml==2.3.3",
           "regex>=1",
           "html2text",
-          "nose==1.2.1",
+          "nose>=1.2.1",
           "mock",
           "coverage",
           "scikit-learn",