The -clobber option was added in a more recent version of optipng. optipng 0.6.4 is available in Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS 6.4 and there isn't any check for what version is installed on the system.
//Writing CSS 'webroot/rsrc/css/sprite-apps.css'...
Writing sprite 'webroot/rsrc/image/sprite-apps.png'...
Optimizing...
Error: Unrecognized option: -clobber
Writing sprite 'webroot/rsrc/image/sprite-apps-X2.png'...
Optimizing...
Error: Unrecognized option: -clobber
Writing CSS 'webroot/rsrc/css/sprite-apps-large.css'...
Writing sprite 'webroot/rsrc/image/sprite-apps-large.png'...
Optimizing...
Error: Unrecognized option: -clobber
Writing sprite 'webroot/rsrc/image/sprite-apps-large-X2.png'...
Optimizing...
Error: Unrecognized option: -clobber
Done.//