Partial forking of OpenCV

I am currently developing an image processing application using OpenCV's cxcore as the basic structure (Matrix class and the their functions are very convenient). However, I don't really use the image processing capabilities provided by OpenCV (cv and cvaux). All I need is the cxcore module, and some highgui for debugging purpose.

Is it possible to fork openCV's cxcore into my own project, legally and technically? Have anyone ever done this before? My intention is to have my application be able to be compiled in any system without having to install openCV as an intermediate step.

Thanks :-) , And开发者_StackOverflowree

P.S.: I have posted the same question in OpenCV's mailing list.

Since OpenCV is licensed with BSD license, you should be able to do anything to the code, even regardless of whether your application is proprietary or free software. Anything includes using only part of that code in your application.

That being said, sharing won't hurt you and it's nice and polite :)