Was this his way of telling me I can still date other guys?

Two Sundays ago i came over to the guy I’ve been seeing for 3 weeks house and he asked me what i did for that day. I told him i went downtown. Once i told him that he asked me “are you seeing somebody downtown or something?”
I paused and looked at him for a few seconds and didn’t answer and the. He said “well if you do then i can’t really get mad”
That’s when i said “i went downtown to hangout with my befriend we went To the new foodery that’s about it”
What does it mean
We didn’t have the relationship talk as of yet
Was this his way of telling me I can still date other guys?
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