The title implies some vote of no confidence by the OpenBSD team regarding Apache, when in actual fact they're just cleaning up their own mess, due to objecting to an earlier licensing change in the 2.x line.
No it doesn't. It says what it says: Apache was removed from base. Now that there is a reasonable alternative with an acceptable license, it is time to move on.
> when in actual fact they're just cleaning up their own mess
You choice of words sure reeks of negativity towards the project. The fact is, skanky old Apache 1.3 has served the project well for a long long time, and it has had a good track record as far as security goes. Keep in mind that code in the base system has been audited, patched and maintained by the project.
Apologies if you read so much negativity into my choice of words, it wasn't meant as an attack on OpenBSD, forking unmaintained software, or whatever else, just intended to point out a correction in the way probably half or more of readers will interpret the article – as some kind of indication that Nginx is technically somehow better than Apache