SFC v. Vizio remanded back to California state courts

France doesn't have Common Law (or maybe I'm mistaken?) thus precedent is of much lesser importance.

Thus yes, it's very important precedent. While I'm not sure this would make Copyleft popular again it have a chance of making it useful.

Because in a today's where all these cheap gadgets either don't offer source or ensure you get it when it's no longer useful just make copyleft painful (for the ones who actually obey the license) and useless (end-user doesn't get the sources needed to fix that damn printer), anyway (if he gets sources after prolonged multi-year battle when said printer is rotting in a landfill it's not much of use).

If SFC will win it would become painful yet usefull… much, much better combo no matter how you look on it.