diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index 87c5b19b6..4bbee80c5 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ Jan Moringen                        jan.moringen@uni-bielefeld.de
 Jan Nieuwenhuizen                   janneke@gnu.org
 Jan-Pawel Wrozstinski               jpwroz@gmail.com
 Janos Farkas                        chexum@shadow.banki.hu
+Jari Aalto                          jari.aalto@cante.net
 Jarkko Hietaniemi                   jhi@epsilon.hut.fi
 Jarod Wilson                        jwilson@redhat.com
 Jean Charles Delepine               delepine@u-picardie.fr
diff --git a/src/cp.c b/src/cp.c
index 859f21bce..15f3aa9a6 100644
--- a/src/cp.c
+++ b/src/cp.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
   -H                           follow command-line symbolic links in SOURCE\n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
-  -l, --link                   link files instead of copying\n\
+  -l, --link                   hard link files instead of copying\n\
   -L, --dereference            always follow symbolic links in SOURCE\n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\