Documentation: Mention the Redis licensing and its forks (#7817)

* Mention the Redis licensing and its forks

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Co-authored-by: shamoon <4887959+shamoon@users.noreply.github.com>

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 - `daphne` as a standalone server, which is the reference
   implementation for ASGI.
 - `uvicorn` as a standalone server
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+## _What about the Redis licensing change and using one of the open source forks_?
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+Currently (October 2024), forks of Redis such as Valkey or Redirect are not officially supported by our upstream
+libraries, so using one of these to replace Redis is not officially supported.
+
+However, they do claim to be compatible with the Redis protocol and will likely work, but we will
+not be updating from using Redis as the broker officially just yet.