diff --git a/share/man/man9/copy.9 b/share/man/man9/copy.9
index a3a46351c52f..38dcb40b0b63 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/copy.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/copy.9
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 15, 2017
+.Dd May 11, 2020
 .Dt COPY 9
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 .Nm copyout_nofault ,
 .Nm copystr ,
 .Nm copyinstr
-.Nd kernel copy functions
+.Nd heterogenous address space copy functions
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .In sys/types.h
 .In sys/systm.h
@@ -57,18 +57,21 @@
 .Fn copyout "const void *kaddr" "void *uaddr" "size_t len"
 .Ft int
 .Fn copyout_nofault "const void *kaddr" "void *uaddr" "size_t len"
-.Ft int
+.Ft int __deprecated
 .Fn copystr "const void *kfaddr" "void *kdaddr" "size_t len" "size_t *done"
 .Ft int
 .Fn copyinstr "const void *uaddr" "void *kaddr" "size_t len" "size_t *done"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
-functions are designed to copy contiguous data from one address
+functions are designed to copy contiguous data from one address space
 to another.
-All but
+.Pp
 .Fn copystr
-copy data from user-space to kernel-space or vice-versa.
+is deprecated and should be replaced with
+.Xr strlcpy 9 .
+It will be removed from
+.Fx 13 .
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn copyin