Just to be explicit, to remain stealthy the F-35 cannot use use L16 in combat, which is a bit of a handicap. MADL currently has to use a gateway for communication with other platforms and HQs, and the US is investigating
stand-alone airborne platforms, which is less than optimum - and not an option for many other customers.
The F-35 is planned to network MADL through satcom using MUOS. But that
slipped to Block 4 (one of the things the Norwegians need at their northerly elevation), but access to non-US customers
is not guaranteed.
So, at the moment, non-US customers will have an asset which when stealthy can only talk to other F-35s, and have no guaranteed path to achieve stealthy networked data communications.