Add location services to android ha-minimum (F-Droid) edition

According to documentation and my own experience F-Droid “flavor” does not provide location services.
As HA wants to be an “Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.” as stated on the Github start-page i ask why not to enable this very interesting feature without relying on G** and sendingthem all your very private location data all the time?
There are tons of software who achieve this even without relying on G**-Services (or Micro-G) or whatsoever. This would be a huge step forward for HA in terms of privacy AND functionality.

Did I misunderstand that this can be achieved by implementing the android-core technology instead of using G** ?