Apparently, some people don't like the GNU drawing in the GFDL template and so, for esthetic reasons, a new template was born:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL-nologo
The reason given, on the edit summary, was:
"some people were annoyed by the cartoon"
Should we have many copyright templates, one to fit everyone's taste or just one standard, vanilla-flavored template?