twinn

I got a job doing Rails development for a company three months ago, I read over the Non Disclosure pretty carefully and thought I understood it to say that the company owned the copyright to any work that I did for them, which is understandable so I signed.

Fast forward two and a half months and my manager tells a group of us he's trying to get management to loosen the language around intellectual property. So I go back and reread and can see that the language could be applied to anything I create anytime. I'm an entrepreneurial type person and always have side projects going, so this is a huge deal to me.

Today my manager clarified that we are free to contribute to open source but "Any commercial endeavor is off limits, whether designed to be monetized now or in the future."

Is this kind of thing common in dev world? Would/do you work under these kinds of rules?