I might very well be wrong, but I believed that the licensing of the IPFilter code, and the clarification of the attached license was part of the reason that OpenBSD, and Theo, is so much against complex licenses.

While better than the GPL, version 2 and 3, in the sense that it's shorter, the Apache 2 license is still much more complex than the ISC or the BSD/MIT licenses. Another part of the issue, for some developers at least, is that the Apache 2 license sort of acknowledges that software patents are a thing. So if you disagree that companies should be allowed to patent software, mathematics and processes, you might not pick a license that validates the existence of those patents.

How does the "ipfilter debacle" relate to "copyright theft" in your mind? Darren Reed changed the license text on his ipfilter software to clarify that modified versions were not permitted, and so his software was removed from OpenBSD.

then again, we don't pat people on the back for holding on to their odd views, we congratulate them for coming to new realizations and acting on those. So... no, not really. It's not even hypocritical. It's just someone who is currently raising a perfectly valid argument, and his arguments in previous debates have literally nothing to do with the current, legally constrained, discussion around events that appear to have been put in place and moved forward without buying from all parties involved.