Isn’t French law based on civil law so the decisions of courts are non-binding / do not carry precedent? Source, Wikipedia. I also find it odd that the French

Isn’t French law based on civil law so the decisions of courts are non-binding / do not carry precedent? Source, Wikipedia. I also find it odd that the French don’t distinguish between a contract and a licence, as in UK-US law a licence is a promise not to enforce one’s rights under copyright law rather than a contractual agreement.