[trisiak]

Most likely it goes far beyond that. California does have explicit provisions that protects your contributions outside of working hours, if done on your own hardware, and if they are unrelated to what your company is doing. Other states don't.

A good reading that covers this very topic really well: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...

[saagarjha]

If you work at Google then that clause protects you much less than you'd think.