This is a plugin meant to help maven user to download different files on different protocol in part of maven build. For the first implementation, there will only be a goal that will help downloading a maven artifact from the command line. Future version of the plugin could include web download, ftp download, scp download and so on.
Homepage POM file JAR file Javadoc'com.googlecode.maven-download-plugin:download-maven-plugin:1.2.0'