Is the documentation a software component?

Question

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Hello! I am writing an application, I need to add a description of some Windows commands. The license agreement states that the use of software components is not permitted. So: is the documentation called by the HELP command a piece of software?

Answer 1

I didn't understand what you really want. So I will answer by the letter of the question - as it is asked.
Yes, in most license agreements known to me, the word “software”, translated into Russian as “software”, means the entire delivered work as a whole in all the variety of its components: the actual computer programs, graphical interface elements, audiovisual parts, documentation and other texts in natural languages, illustrations for them.
What does not negate the fact that it can be otherwise - you need to read the contract.
If you are confused by the word "software" in relation to the text in the human language, then firstly, note that in the English original this word does not exist at all - the so-called. “soft” (soft) “products” (wares) is everything that is opposed to “hard” (hard) “products”, that is, equipment (“hardware”).
And secondly, there is nothing of the kind in this - legalization differs from ordinary language in that it introduces all sorts of anti-intuitive terms, and then strictly adheres to them. In the same GNU copyleft licenses, the object of the contract is not called “software”, but “program” or “library”, that is, the set of Advaita icons according to its license is “library”, and nothing.
But something else is also important.
Is it just me, or does your question imply that if the owners of non-free software forgot to ban you, then you're allowed to?
Have mercy! The whole essence of the author's monopoly is that you *and so* everything is prohibited, except for using the work for its intended purpose for your own personal purposes (roughly speaking: read a book, listen to music, perform a program). And a license is called a “license” because it is a permissive document that always gives you back some rights beyond these.

Answer 2

No, it is the result of running "software components". As the cat Matroskin said - milk from my cow.
But borrowing pieces of documentation without a link and passing it off as your own is a crime.