Nem. Azt azért adták ki, hogy a kernelbe contribute-olt kódra is vonatkozzon az Open Specification Promise.
Itt a staging driver kódja a kernelhez:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190828160817.6250-1-gregkh@linuxfoundati…
"The exfat code needs a lot of work to get it into "real" shape for
the fs/ part of the kernel, so put it into drivers/staging/ for now so
that it can be worked on by everyone in the community."